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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 7835
Title:: Menazilü'l-arifin - منازل العارفين
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a religious treatise by Şemseddin Sivasi. The author says in the preface that 'this year', meaning 993 AH (1585 CE), being distracted by grievous changes in worldly and religious affairs, he was seeking some pious task on which he could centre his thoughts, when he found a s...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1194
Extent:: 1 text, 62 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78350
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIII (ff. ii + 76). 1. ff. 1-73. `Numismata. A Discourse of Medals'; [bef. 1697]. Autograph draft (ff. 1-61), probably begun as a fair copy, but with many cancelled passages and changes, and the note by Evelyn, `foule copy', on the fly-leaf. Paginated 1-120 by Evelyn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [before 1697]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78351
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIV (ff. 176+87*+169*). Miscellaneous papers by or collected by Evelyn, relating to language, education, heraldry, etc.; including fragmentary works and notes. For related material, removed from the archive by William Upcott, see Add. MS 15950, ff. 81-105, 111-121. 1. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78352 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: A. Exercises in French grammar; 1643. With Evelyn’s ownership signature and motto on the fly-leaf, `Turoniis 1643’. Formerly Evelyn MS 121. ff. ii + 11. 185 x 145mm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1643
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78352 B
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Scope & Content:: B. `Receuil des mots qui soubs mesmes prononciation ont des significations differentes. Dispose en ordre alphabetiques’; 1644. French. In the same hand as the preceding, and including a few pencil sketches on blank pages. With Evelyn’s signature on the title-page, `Turoniis. Sept: 18: 1644’, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1644
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78353
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVI. John Evelyn, An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura. Interpreted and Made English Verse. London: Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, 1656. Printed, with autograph inscription, a note on the verso of the title-page concerning the many mispr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1656
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78353-78356
Title:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CLXXXVI-CLXXXIX. Manuscripts relating to Evelyn's project for publishing a verse translation with commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura; 1656-1657. Only the translation of the first book was ever published. No manuscripts relating to the second book are known to survive. The project, which reflected Evelyn's interest in the new science as well as in classical literature and philosophy, is discussed in his letters to Sir Richard Browne of 1656-57 in Add. MS 78221. See ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1656-1657
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 78354
Title:
Scope & Content:: EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXVII. Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, books III-VI (to line 694); 1656-1657. Autograph fair copy of a text which was never published, Evelyn claiming that the `ill successe' of the first volume `at the printers discouraged me from troubling the world with the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1656-1657
Extent:: 1 item

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