[ Table of Contents ] –; [ Chronological Listing ] – [ Repository Listing ] – [ MS. Locke ] Bodleian Library, Oxford University MS. Locke c. 31A guardbook in which are mounted miscellaneous papers. 193 leaves. ff. 13-14: “The Lives and manners of the Laplanders,” notes on a picture showing Lapp life, sent by William Allestree to Locke, 16 September 1673; endorsed by Locke “LAEI Lapland Explicacon of ye picture 73. The original picture sent by Allestree is probably lost; there survive, however, two coloured drawings by Locke’s manservant Sylvester Brounower, in an album belonging to Hans Sloane, who acquired it from William Courten [British Library, Add. MS. 5,253, ff. 6-7], and an engraving by F. H. van Hove in Moses Pitt’s English Atlas, vol. 1 (1680). [printed Corr., i. 277; excerpts in Bourne, Life, 1:320] f. 24: Satellitus Jovis (1679) f. 26: Note in French on botanists and their work, inscribed by Locke “Dr Magnol,” and endorsed “Botanici 79”; enclosed in letter from William Charleton, 18/28 February 1679 [MS. Locke c. 5, ff. 32-33]. [printed De Beer, i. 449] ff. 27-28: Letter from J.-J. de Frémont d’Ablancourt to Henri Justel, [about April 1679], endorsed “Geographia 79”; original in MS. Locke c. 12, ff. 57-59. [printed De Beer, ii. (462)] f. 32: Account in Latin by Jean Picard of solar spots, with a note by Toinard, endorsed by Locke “Solis maculæ May 80”; enclosed in letter from Nicolas Toinard to Locke, 12/22 May [1680]. [printed De Beer, ii. 536] f. 43: “Description d’un Pendule amobile que l’on ajoute aux grandes Orloges à resort en volute” in the hand of N. Toinard, Jan. 1681, endorsed “Pendulum 21 Jan 81”; enclosed in a letter from Toinard to Locke, 15/25 January 1681 [MS. Locke c. 21, ff. 101-102. [printed De Beer, ii. 611] f. 47: “Eclipse de Lune observée à Paris le 29 Aoust 1681 au matin à l’Observatoire Roial,” endorsed by Locke “Eclypsis lunae 29 Aug 81”; an account by Nicolas Toinard, enclosed in a letter from Toinard to Locke, 24 August/3 September 1681, MS. Locke c. 21, ff. 113-114. [printed De Beer, ii. 655] ff. 67-78: Adversariorum methodus [Latin version (copy)] [shortly before 30 March/9 April 1685?] ff. 107-108: An account by Mrs. Mary Popple of a dream, endorsed “P’s Dream May 93”; enclosed in a letter from William Popple to Locke, 18 May 1693 [MS. Locke c. 17, ff. 207-208]. f. 166: “A catalogue of ye grapes yt grow in or about Montpellier”; endorsed “Grapes 79”; enclosed in letter from William Charleton, 18/28 February 1679 [MS. Locke c. 5, ff. 32-33]. [De Beer, i. 449 (not printed)] |