Add MS 78360-78361

EVELYN PAPERS. Vols CXCIII, CXCIV. Evelyn's Bible, two volume folio edition printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1638, interleaved with blank leaves. On these and in the margins are many autograph annotations. The leaf preceding each of the title-pages contains an engraved design encircling a blank medallion for the recording of personal or family memoranda. On the verso of this leaf in the first volume is the autograph inscription, `E Libris Evelyni 1650'; in the medallion itself, `This Bible is after my Decease to be deliverd to Mrs Blagge, late Mayd of Honour to the Queen', signed and dated 16 Oct. 1673, the first anniversary of his pact of friendship with her. At the head of the inscription is the pentacle symbol and the motto `Un Dieu un Amy'; at the foot the Evelyn gryphon and the motto `Meliora Retinete'. After each title-page is inserted, in the first volume, a map of the Holy Land, by John Speed, 1611; in the second, an anonymous map of the eastern Mediterranean, entitled `Peregrinatie der Apostelen'. On the first fly leaf of the first volume is `A Prayer before Reading Holy Scripture' and on the back paste-down of the last volume is the note, `the full notes are no farther than to the End of the Acts in those Interfoliations, but should be supplyd from the MSS. Folio'; i.e. Add. MS 78362 below. Beal EvJ 166. Formerly Evelyn MS 46.

Two volumes. Bound in brown reversed calf, blind-stamped. 390 x 260mm.