Add MS 78228

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXI. Academic exercises, formal letters and speeches, etc., of or transcribed by Browne at Oxford; 1622-1625, n.d. Partly autograph. Latin, with some Greek. Mostly copies, partly imperfect. The contents derive from his career at, successively, Christ Church, St. Albans Hall and Merton College. Included are:

1. ff.1-7. Copies of letters written to his father, Richard Corbett, Dean of Christ Church, and others, with a prose lament on the death of Sir Henry Savile in Feb. 1622, with epigrams that were printed in Oxford University’s Ultima Linea Savilii, 1622, sig. D, all comprised in a single gathering.

2. ff. 9-10v. Speech made before the university on medicine; n.d.

3. ff. 11-22. Copies of letters to his father, partly from St Alban Hall, to Jerameel Terrent of Christ Church and to various named fellows of Merton College and its Warden, Nathaniel Brent, with other notes, incorporated in loose leaves from a single notebook, 1624-1625, n.d. Partly imperfect.

4. ff. 23-41. Exercises on themes extracted from the Latin historians, etc., n.d. Partly imperfect.

5. ff. 42-44v. Speech of John Prideaux, Vice-Chancellor, to James I at Woodstock, 24 Aug. 1624.

6. ff. 45-47. Address, beginning 'Quid orbi attonito dirum incutis horrorem?', following the death of James I in March 1625.

7. ff. 48-54. Two copies of a disputation on three questions in natural philosophy, beginning with ‘Philosophi possint sufficere rebus civilibus’, including verses, n.d. Partly imperfect. Formerly Evelyn MS 101.

ff. 54. Unsewn gatherings. Wrapper docketed by Evelyn 'Orations & Academical Exercises of S^r: R: Brown whilst a young student in Oxford'. 216 x 158mm.