Add MS 78350

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CLXXXIII (ff. ii + 76).

1. ff. 1-73. `Numismata. A Discourse of Medals'; [bef. 1697]. Autograph draft (ff. 1-61), probably begun as a fair copy, but with many cancelled passages and changes, and the note by Evelyn, `foule copy', on the fly-leaf. Paginated 1-120 by Evelyn, but with pp. 93-94 and 97-100 missing. Followed (f. 62) by a draft dedicatory letter in Latin to Charles, Lord Spencer, and Francis Godolphin, later versions of pp. 3-7 (ff. 63-65), and other insertions and loose notes (ff. 66-73). Numismata was published 1697 (see Keynes, Evelyn: a Study in Bibliophily, pp. 229-234). It is the only work published in Evelyn's lifetime for which a substantially complete manuscript survives. Beal EvJ 15. Formerly Evelyn MS 63 (and 538).

2. ff. 74-76. Notes headed `Bibliotheca & MSS'; late 17<sup>th</sup> cent. Autograph. These were probably intended for Evelyn's essay `Of Manuscripts', listed as `begun but imperfect' in Add. MSS 15950, f. 80, and printed in Memoirs, ed. Bray (1818), II, pp. 323-336, when the manuscript was part of the present archive (it is now unlocated; Beal EvJ 150). It appears from the first paragraph of this essay that it was conceived as a continuation of Evelyn's translation of Naudé's Instructions concerning Erecting a Library (1661), and of Numismata: `it might neither be unacceptable or vnwellcom to the Curious, and such as would inrich & addorne their Libraries with that which has euer ben esteemed the most valuable & precious furniture, if to what the learned Naudeus has publish'd concerning it in general, I added some more particular Directions in a chapter or two relating to Manu-scripts, as alredy I have of Medals' (p. 323). See also the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, `Gabriel Naudé and John Evelyn', The Library, 4th ser., 12 (1932), pp. 383-402, discussing his copy of the first edition with Evelyn's MS. corrections. Part of Beal EvJ 135. Formerly part of Evelyn MS 533.