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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very good but inmethodical book.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MorelyA plaine and easie introduction to practicall musi...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Musique", wherein are some things very pretty.'Samuel Pepys John PlayfordA brief introduction to the skill of musickPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending ...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerWorks... in eight books of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys William DugdaleThe Origines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys John PlayfordCatch that catch can, or The musical companionPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read more in the Origines'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troub...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book


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