Add MS 78455

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLXXXVIII. Parallel Latin copy and English translation of the odes of Horace, in an unidentified hand which may be that of John Evelyn junior or more probably that of his son, John Evelyn, afterwards 1^st Bart.; [1680s-1690s?]. The text and translation are on facing pages, with wide margins ruled in ink, in which the notes are added. Probably at a considerably later date than the composition, the work was re-presented as if by John Evelyn the diarist. His engraved portrait by Thomas Worlidge after Nanteuil, 1723, was added as a frontispiece at the time of rebinding, and two slips of paper were mounted at the end, one an ownership inscription, probably removed from a volume once in his library, `E Libris J Evelynis emptus Turoniys 1644', and the other containing an impression of his seal, his monogram, and a copy of his note of the time and date of his birth. Purchased, probably by William John Evelyn, at Sotheby's, June 1869; a copy of the sale catalogue entry is pasted on to the front cover (f.i). Formerly Evelyn MS 127.

ff. vi + 70. Binding of brown Russia leather, 19th cent. 195 x 165mm.