Shelfmark
MS 403
Author
Title
Letter from John Evelyn to Dr Godolphin, Provost of Eton [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
Wotton : 8 February 1697-1698.
Physical description
[2] leaves ; 221 x 173 mm.
Note
Material: paper.
Note
Format: single sheet, folded once on the long edge.
Note
Layout: written only on one side, 45 lines of text; no ruling.
Note
Dimentions: 221 x 173 mm (folded), 221 x 340 mm (unfolded).
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: Evelyn updates the Provost on his work Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Antient and Modern and tells him his plans for a second edition of Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography.
Provenance
Frances Evelyn Rowley Heygate donated the letter to the college in 1914 as stated in the preface to the volume Seven letters of John Evelyn, Oxford 1914 (Saa2.6.10).
Provenance
Round stamp of Eton College at the beginning and at the end of the letter.
Copy-specific note
Previously MS 12a.
Copy-specific note
The letter is tipped at the beginning of the printed volume Seven letters of John Evelyn, Oxford 1914 (Saa2.6.10) between flyleaf 12 and flyleaf 13.
Subject
Added entry--name
Heygate, Frances Evelyn Rowley author of the preface.
Added entry--name
Godolphin, Henry, 1648 - 1733 recipient.
Added entry--place
Great Britain England Wotton.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53070