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Title

Ship's log

Authors

• Hawke (Ship)

Call number

Ms. Codex 938
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3575750
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3575750

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1795-1799

Place

On board between England and India

Summary

The first volume documents a voyage under Captain R. Edwards from England to Calcutta and Madras between 1795 and 1797; the second volume lists the crew with their stations and wages at the beginning of the volume and documents another voyage, this time under Captain David B. Barker, to Madras and Calcutta between 1797 and 1799.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

2 v., 137 and 132 leaves : 365 x 240 mm. bound to 375 x 243 mm. (v.1); 365 x 230 bound to 375 x 235 (v. 2) +

Foliation

V.1: Paper, 137; [1-137]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. V.2: Paper, 132; [1-132]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

First volume bound in parchment; second bound in reverse calf (bookseller's description).

Layout

In the first volume, the first nine pages are written freehand with no ruling at all, and the remaining pages are divided into upper and lower halves with a complex ruling in ink of six columns of various widths, each of 12 lines, in each half; in the second volume, the first four pages are ruled in five columns for the list of the ship's crew, and the remaining pages are printed with the format of six columns in top and bottom halves of each page.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by McBlain Books, 2003.
   

Subjects topical

• Merchant ships--Great Britain

Genres

• Codices
• Ships' logs
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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