Add MS 78425

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.

1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably acquired by Evelyn when he was in Italy in the mid 1640s and afterwards inscribed by him on the front cover, `Polit. MSS', and the location `In Chartophyl’. Formerly Evelyn MS 231. 215 x 160mm.

2. Three discourses headed, `Quaestio devidenda sic se habet Corporae caelestia non sunt causae humanarum actionum`, `Thomae Randulphi oratio praevaricatoris comitiis Cantabrigiensibus habita. Anno Domini 1632', `An Veritas sit in intellecta, et pendet in veritate rei’, mostly in the same hand, headed 5, 6 and 7; early 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 301.

3. `Sume Dyerections towards the makinge of a smale watche of brasse'; 17th cent. In an unidentified secretary hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 298.

4. Treatise on astronomy in seventeen short chapters; early 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Copy[/italics] in a single scribal hand. Headed `Astronomy’ by Evelyn, and annotated with the location `In Chartophylac:’.

5. `The use of the Philosophers stone for health taken out of an old M.SS.’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. The heading is Evelyn’s [italics]autograph,[/italics] the text probably in that of his amanuensis, Richard Hoare, and therefore [italics]circa[/italics] 1649-52. Formerly Evelyn MS 118. In a modern binding of marbled paper.

6. `Usage du Compas de proportion’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]French[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 519.

7. [italics]Extracts[/italics] of communications from Lyons, Amsterdam and elsewhere on perpetual motion, 1658-1660, n.d. Partly [italics]Latin[/italics]. The last is headed `Mr [Cressy] Dymocks Proposition’. Probably, on the evidence of the handwriting, supplied to Evelyn by Samuel Hartlib. Formerly Evelyn MS 299.

8. Fragmentary papers, some annotated by Evelyn, on mathematics, clock-making, metallic thread, the capacity of a vessel containing liquid, and streams with calcifying properties; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.

9. `The Reall subject Or an Expositive Clause(?) to the whole matter masked under the name of Dendrologia:/ Under the shadow of Trees is couched Amixt Theologicall discourse: Partlie Theologicall: Polyticall: Historicall …’; 1640. Key to James Howell's [italics]Dendrologia[/italics]. Formerly Evelyn MS 492.

10. `Series decretorum dei Causarumque & mediorum salutis. Per B. Sandersonum’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. [italics]Latin[/italics]. In the same hand as the preceding. Formerly Evelyn MS 560. Annotated by Evelyn.

11. Notes and pen sketches of Roman military equipment and battle formations; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. In an unidentified hand.

12. `The Testament of that excellent learned person, Jac. Aug. Thuanus’ (Jacques Auguste de Thou); 17th cent. [italics]Copy[/italics] in a scribal hand, endorsed by Evelyn.

13. Fragment on allegiance to the Roman Catholic church’, beg. `The discourse wee had the other day I hope satisfyed you . . .’; 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent. In an unidentified scribal hand, endorsed by Evelyn `Theol’.

14. Fragment of a sermon on false accusation; late 17[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.?]. In an unidentified hand. Formerly Evelyn MS 521.

15. `History & Case of a Murder discovered, Extraord[inary?] sent me by Mr Thorsby [Ralph Thoresby] of Leeds’; late 17[superscript]th[/superscript]-early 18[superscript]th[/superscript] cent.

16. Two Ottoman documents endorsed by Evelyn, `An Arabic or Turkis Writing’, apparently formal letters or addresses to an English Christian community, both with the [italics]tughra[/italics] (calligraphically ornate signature) of an Ottoman sultan; 1070 [1659 according to the Christian calendar]. [italics]Turkish[/italics]. One document has the further endorsement, `Arc: Vil: N-XIV’.