Add MS 78328

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXI. `Locorum Comm: Tomus 1mus'; [1650s-1680s?]. Autograph. Partly Latin and Greek. Preceded (ff. 1-2) by a list of books read and commonplaced, in two columns under headings, `Theolog. & Moral' and `Hist & Philolog'; the whole headed `Bookes Comm: plac: in Divinite Read & Entered in this & the Other two Volumes viz. the Portfeuile & Philologic: Adversar:'. Followed by a preliminary Latin note (f. 2v), headed `De forma Locorum Communium Eruditioni acquirendae accommodata', a quotation from a published letter in Latin from Joseph Scaliger to Isaac Casaubon, and Evelyn's motto and monogram. All the notes from any one source are entered together, with notes in Latin of subject matter in the margins. The first section (ff. 3-89v) is headed, `Loci Communes [`Theologici et' inserted] Philologici'. On p. 227 is the heading `Medicina. Morbi, Vulnera, Pharmaca. Chirurgia &c', and on p. 521, `Bellica, Arma, Castra, Machinae, Stratagemata, Arces, Bellica Facinora, Virtus Militaris, but with no notes entered. On pp. 601-606 are notes headed `Fragmenti'. These headings presumably predate the marginal subject indexing of all the notes. Formerly Evelyn MS 54/2.

Paginated mostly in ink `1-944' by Evelyn; but some sequences (pp. 1-28, 123-138, 355-414, 701-730, 845-860) are paginated in pencil or ink over pencil, having been added after the original leaves were excised, leaving guards on which new blank leaves were pasted. Traces of notes in Evelyn's hand from the original leaves remain on some of the guards. The excised leaves are now in Add. MS 78330 below. Original binding of mottled calf, with Evelyn's monogram and crest of a gryphon passant stamped in gold. 440 x 295mm.