Add MS 78230

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXIII. Notebook of extracts from classical authors, notes on Italian politics and an itinerary in Northern Italy; 1627-1630, with additions by John Evelyn the younger, afterwards 1^st Bart, 1701/2, including (f. 48v) an elegiac couplet written in Nov. 1701 at Oxford and (ff. 94v, 95) copies of an epigram of Feb. 1702 ‘On the descent of the Germans from the Alps...into Cremona.’ in parallel Latin and English versions. Partly Latin, Greek and Italian. Beal EvJ 30 (incorrectly as having some content by John Evelyn the diarist). Formerly Evelyn MS 95.

ff. iv + 187. Contemporary binding of brown calf, the covers bearing a blind-stamped compartment formed from three rules, with four tie-holes at edges; spine of raised bands. Paste-downs (ff. ii, iv) formed from printed sheets of The Dayes Report (p. 8) and Deus et Rex (p. 17), as seen also in the lining of the black leather pyxides (Add. MS 78677 A). Contemporary pagination in ink from 1 to 366. Recto of front flyleaf (f. 1) bears letter ‘R’ at centre in ink and on the verso the ownership-inscription of John Evelyn the younger, dated ‘1701/2’. 105 x 170mm.

1. ff. 3v-36. Extracts ‘Ex M. Fabii Quintiliani, Institutionum Oratorium Libris Duodecim Excerpta’.

2. ff. 56v-78. Extracts ‘Ex Lucii Flori Excerpta’.

3. ff. 88v-93. Miscellaneous notes, in English, on Italian affairs, including events in the Marquisates of Mantua and Monferrat, 1627-1629.

Volume reversed:

4. ff. 169-158v. Extracts ‘Ex C. Plinii Caecilii. Secund. Epist:’.

5. ff. 187-179. Miscellaneous notes relating to Italy, partly in Italian.

6. ff. 178v-177. Itinerary of a journey from and to Turin by way of Vicenza, Ferrara, Florence, Siena and Rome; 12 Sept. 1629-9 Feb. 1630. The journey was taken while Browne was serving as secretary to the embassy of Sir Isaac Wake to Savoy (see Add. MSS 78201, 78202 above).