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. 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] 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] 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)]
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