Add MS 78234

EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. LXVII (ff. 142). Miscellaneous verses and inscriptions, with some prose, mostly in languages other than English and deriving from Browne’s papers; circa late 16^th cent.-1683, n.d. Partly autograph drafts and copies. Partly Latin, French, Italian and Spanish. As follows:

1. ff. 1-53. Verses and inscriptions chiefly relating to English affairs, arranged in roughly chronological order; after 1649-1683, n.d. Mostly Latin. Partly drafts.

(a) ff. 22-52. Inscriptions and verses composed, revised or copied chiefly by Browne; 1650-1683, n.d. Including: (i) Two autograph fair copies of an epitaph in Latin elegiacs for his wife Elizabeth (d. 6 Oct. 1652) and two autograph drafts of a monumental inscription in Latin prose for the tomb of his son Richard (buried 23 June 1661); - (ii) Richard Bellings, Irish historian: Autograph verses, in Latin elegiacs and in English, partly incorporated in letters to Browne, with occasional autograph revisions and additions by the recipient; circa 1655-1659 and n.d. Partly drafts and imperfect; - (iii) ‘Ejaculationes consolatoriae in praesentem statum ... Jacobi Ducis Monmouthensis compilatae per Thomam Ramseum Lithuanum … Ministrum …’, in Latin lapidary verse, with prefatory letter, dedicated to Browne as ‘Militi’; 26 March [?circa 1680-1682]; - (iv) ‘Mr Cooper’s Verses on Sr: R: Browne’s Death’ (docket by John Evelyn), beg. ‘If we our sorrows, with our joys compare’; Feb. 1683.

(b) ff. 1-21. Miscellaneous verses and inscriptions chiefly relating to English affairs; 1603-1678, n.d. Latin. Included are: (i) William Clarke: ‘Carmen heroicum in mortem Serenissimae Angliae Reginae nuper defunctae’, in Latin hexameters, beg. ‘Reginae manes et ineluctabile fatum’; 1603; - (ii) George Herbert: ‘Inventa Bellica’, in Latin hexameters; circa 1622. Two copies, partly imperfect, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’; - (iii) Three Horatian odes, in Latin, headed ‘Soteria I Caroli II Magnae Britanniae &c Regis Serenissimi …’; circa Oct. 1651. Fair copy, imperfect, with revisions; - (iv) Draft of a lapidary inscription, etc., in Latin for the tomb of Sir Richard Ford, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1678).

2. ff. 54-142. Verse elegies, epitaphs, inscriptions and satires, etc., with some prose, on European affairs and public figures; circa late 16^th cent.-1660, n.d. Latin, French and Italian. Including:

(a) ff. 57-61. Three poems and a verse-epitaph, in Latin, on the Dominican Tommaso Martinelli, robber of Petrarch’s tomb, one poem being subscribed ‘J: M:’; followed by Latin elegiacs ‘Ad Petrarcham’ by Maurice Berkeley; circa (but aft.) 1630.

(b) ff. 79-105v. Satirical verses and inscriptions in Latin and French composed mostly after the death of Cardinal Richelieu in November 1642. The writers, who are mostly anonymous, include François Hédelin, Abbé d’Aubigné, and Francois Maynard.

(c) f. 110. Satirical epigram in Latin elegiacs on the Assembly of Munster; circa 1643-1648. Copy in Browne’s hand.

(d) f. 115. ‘Rondeau à Boire à L’Inchiquin’ [i.e. Murrough O’Brien, 1^st Earl of Inchiquin, lieutenant-general in the French army]; circa 1650-1660. French.

(e) ff. 117-122v. Gilbert Gaulmin (d. 1665): Verses, in Latin and French, viz: (i) Two sets of Latin elegiacs on the marriage of Louis XIV to Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain, and three further sets on the peace resulting from this; May 1660. Two copies; - (ii) ‘Au Roy d’Angleterre Ode’, celebrating the restoration of Charles II, subscribed ‘Gilbert’; circa 1660.

3. ff. 123-142. Miscellaneous undated verse and prose, including amatory and bawdy verse; circa 1640-circa 1660. French, Italian and Spanish. Including:

(a) f. 125. Translation into French of the equivocal verses ‘I hold as faith’ (printed in Wits Recreations (1640) on the Catholic and Protestant creeds, beg. ‘Je tien pour chose tres certaine’.

(b) ff. 137-142. Francisco de Quevedo: Satirical dialogue on the economic policies of the Conde-Duque de Olivares, beg. ‘O Señor Licenciado Dioss le guarde’; circa late 1630s-1643. Spanish. Printed, from a copy in Madrid, Bibliotheca Nacional MS 4067, by Mercedes Etreros, La satira politica en el siglo xvii (Madrid, 1983), App. xvi, pp.448-56.