Add MS 78290

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXIII. John Sampson: `Nestor's Panygyric: The Praise of Old Age … Written by the Author at Corpus Christi Coll: in Oxford’; 1624. With emblematic decorations in pen and ink on the title-page. The text, which begins, `To the most vertuous, wise and true Nestor Mr John Stansfeild of Lewes in Sussex peace and happines’, is written throughout in a not very accomplished secretary hand, differing from that of Sampson in the receipt for his legacy from Stansfield in Add. MS 78289 above. On the fly-leaf is a note by John Evelyn, `This discourse was dedicated to my grandfather Standsfield . . . My Grandfather (I find) maintain’d this young scholar in the University: This was copied from a Booke of my Grandmother, by some very ignorant person’. Sampson graduated B.A. at Corpus Christi, 22 Feb. 1625, M.A. 23 Feb. 1628, and was appointed vicar of Blewbury, co. Berk., 1629. Evelyn’s press-mark(?) on fly-leaf: `J.38’. Formerly Evelyn MS 104.

Contemporary binding of brown sprinkled calf. 145 x 97mm.