Add MS 78333

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXVI. `Adversaria Historical, Physical, Mathematical, Mechanicall, &c promiscuously set downe as they Occur in Reading, or Casual Discourse', with the note added in the margin, `Also some particular notes in my Travels'; [1680s-1703, n.d]. Autograph. Entries concerning natural and practical knowledge predominate, but there are also entries on subjects similar to those in the preceding volume. They includes a long section (ff. 7-9) on `Modes', concerning fashions in male and female dress of the 1690s and referring to Evelyn's work, Tyrannus or the Mode (1661). There are many blank leaves before a further section headed `Receipts, Compositions & and other Medicinal & Artificial Seacrets, Casualy met with in Reading, & discourse', containing 54 entries. This section is similar in subject-matter to Add. MS 78340 below, but on the evidence of the handwriting this volume, like the preceding, was begun in the later years of Evelyn's life. Several of the notes are illustrated with small pen drawings. Beal EvJ 31. Formerly Evelyn MS 173.

ff. 20 + ii. Original vellum binding. 320 x 210mm.