Add MS 78639

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCLXXII. Miscellaneous papers relating to the books, manuscripts and coins collected by John Evelyn and his descendants; 1637-1752.

1. Notes of books and a donation given by Evelyn to Balliol College; 1637, 1676.

2. Smoke impressions on paper from metal dies for the decoration of bindings for Evelyn, by Thomas Simon, graver at the Mint, with inscription by Evelyn; 1641.

3. Designs in pencil and ink made for Evelyn by Abraham Bosse, including a variant book plate and personal cypher, with an enclosed bill and receipt which also refers to Nanteuil’s portrait of Evelyn; 1652. French.

4. Two impressions of a small etched personal cipher, `IE’, within a square border, intertwined with a design of flowers and leaves, one with the pencil inscription `Jo: Evelyn sculpsit’ at the foot; [1650s?]. 40 x 40.5mm. For Evelyn’s engraving, see Antony Griffiths, `John Evelyn and the Print’, in F. Harris and Michael Hunter, eds., John Evelyn and his Milieu (2003), pp. 101-105.

5. Five decorated headings by Richard Hoare cut from his library catalogue of 1653 (for which see Add. MS 78630 above), with some titles and press-marks on the versos. One is formerly Evelyn MS 402.

6. Draft of the `advertisement' to Evelyn’s 1686 library catalogue above, Add. MS 78631 above.

7. Miscellaneous lists of books, prints and maps in Evelyn’s hand, including `Books of Devotion for a Ladys Library’, compiled for Anne, Countess of Sunderland, and a list of books mentioning Evelyn himself; 1686, n.d. Including two notes by Evelyn cut from the fly-leaves of books formerly owned by him, 1660. Formerly Evelyn MSS 487, 515, 577, 601, 603. For further lists by Evelyn of books and manuscripts, see amongst Upcott’s collections, Add. MS 15950, ff. 76-80.

8. Lists by Evelyn of manuscripts in his archive relating to the time of Elizabeth I and to Sir Richard Browne; aft. 1682. Formerly Evelyn MS 581.

9. List by Evelyn of `Catalogue of Books, Papers Rolls &c of my son left at London’; 1692. Formerly Evelyn MS 576.

10. List by Evelyn of his own works and projects in manuscript, most of which remain in his archive, headed `Things I would write out faire and reforme if I had Leasure'; [1690s?]. Autograph. Including `Londoninum Redivium', `Pedegree of the Evelyns’, `The 3 remaining Meditations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, being the remaining course of Offices …', `A Rational Account of the True Religion ... with a packet of notes belonging to it', `Oeconomicks to a Married Friend’, `The Legend of the Pearle', `Some letters of mine to Electra [Margaret Godolphin] & to others in that packet’, `A Discourse of Staves’, `Library & Manuscripts’, `A Book of some Observations Political & Discourses of that kind', `Thersander’, `Dignity of Mankind’, with later additions, including `My own Ephemeris or diarie’. Printed in Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray (1859), II, pp. 92. Beal EvJ 42. Formerly Evelyn MS 330.

11. List of letters and papers in Evelyn’s closet at Wotton, including letters and devotional manuscripts associated with Margaret Godolphin; aft. 1702. Autograph, with a pencilled note by W. G. Hiscock. Beal EvJ 40. Formerly Evelyn MS 310.

12. List by Evelyn of books and papers left at Wotton, `when I came to winter at London'; 21 Nov. 1702. Including `A Book of Copys of my own Letters fol. … wherof the last letter is CCCCII', several commonplace books and bundles, and volumes of religious and sermon notes still in his archive. Beal EvJ 41. Formerly Evelyn MS 311.

13. Notes by Evelyn, possibly for a letter, concerning leases and deeds in his closet at Dover Street; [bef. 1706]. Formerly Evelyn MS 602.

14. `Catalogue of Books left at London in my Grandfathers Study’, in the hand of John Evelyn, afterw. 1^st Bart.; [early 1700s?]. With an additional list of maps and rolls.

15. Lists in the hand of Sir John Evelyn, 1^st Bart., of books, maps and coins belonging to his father, himself and his son Charles; circa 1698-1752.

16. `Mr Evelyn’s MSS at Wotton’, a list of ten items from the archive of John Evelyn the diarist; early 19^th cent.

17. `A List of Books Missing from the Library at Wotton’, with press-marks, by F. McPherson; 22 Dec. 1827.

18. List of 14 items from the Evelyn archive headed `Evelyn MS Misc’; 20th cent.

19. Book-lists in unidentified hands, headed respectively `List of Books, At Upton Grey’ and `A Catalogue of all the Classick Authors cum Notis Variorum’; [18^th cent.?].