Add MS 78402

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCXXXV. `Pictures and other Household-stuff Left at Sayes Court'; 1696. Autograph. Inventory, room by room, entered in pencil in a notebook containing a few earlier alphabetical entries by Evelyn for a library catalogue; made in June 1696 while Evelyn prepared Sayes Court for the tenancy of Vice Admiral John Benbow (see Diary, V, p. 244). Listed are the contents of three parlours, withdrawing room, the great chamber, library, study, chapel, `John's chamber', maids' chamber, garret, upper store house, hall, staircase, still-house, kitchen, buttery, bedchamber, dressing-room, nursery, `myrtil house', greenhouse, `Bowling Ally somer house', brick summer house, garden, wood-house, bake-house, stable and apple loft. At the beginning (f. 1v) are two translations into English verse of Virgil's Aeneid, Bk. II, ll. 15-20. and at the end (ff. 22v-36) a further library catalogue, both in the early hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1st Bart. Some of the pencil entries are faint and many leaves have been damaged by damp with some loss of text. Beal EvJ 63. Formerly Evelyn MS 88.

ff. iii + 36. Originally bound in dark brown calf, with gilt-stamped decoration in the centre of the front cover, now extensively repaired and rebacked. 170 x 115mm.