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EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. CLXI-CLIV. `Loci communes': a series of three volumes, with a separate index volume; [circa 1649-1680s?]. Begun in Hoare's hand and continued by Evelyn, they contain `extracts of his reading . . . sorted by subject according to the whole gamut of knowledge, human, natural and divine', so that they comprise `one of the most elaborate commonplace books to survive for the period' (Hunter, op. cit., p. 74). Evelyn was proud of his method, sending his brother in 1658 `the ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s?]
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4 items

2. Add MS 78328

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXI. `Locorum Comm: Tomus 1mus'; [1650s-1680s?]. Autograph. Partly Latin and Greek. Preceded (ff. 1-2) by a list of books read and commonplaced, in two columns under headings, `Theolog. & Moral' and `Hist & Philolog'; the whole headed `Bookes Comm: plac: in Divini...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1650s-1680s?]
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 78330

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIII. 'Tomus Tertius'; [aft.1649?]. In fact this volume was originally the first of the series to be compiled. The first pages of each of the sections described below are in the hand of Richard Hoare. At this stage Evelyn conceived of a subject arrangement for his commo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[after1649?]
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 78329

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXII. `Locorum Comm: Tomus IIdus'; [1650s-1680s?]. A note by Evelyn in Latin at the beginning explains that the commonplaces in this second volume were not included in the preceding volume either because the works concerned were not read in due order, or because of absence ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1650s-1680s?]
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 78331

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EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXIV. Index to the preceding three volumes, consisting of four lists of entries, each in double columns, and followed by volume (in the above order) and page references, corresponding with the pencilled sequences added to each volume. A note by Evelyn concerning the order an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1649-1680s]
Extent:
1 item

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