Bodleian Library, Oxford University

MS. Locke c. 31

A 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 Explication of y^e 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 Charleton [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 De Beer, i. 277; excerpts in Bourne, Life, vol. 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:

Latin version of Locke’s “A new method of a commonplace-book”

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)]