Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ship's log

Authors

• General Goddard (Ship)

Call number

Ms. Codex 939
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3575938
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3575938

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1789-1790

Place

On board between England and India

Summary

Documentation of a voyage between England, Calcutta, and Madras in 1789-1790, under Captain Thomas Foxall. Includes notes on course, distance, and position; weather observations; vessels sighted; and cargo loaded and unloaded.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

131 leaves : 362 x 235 mm. bound to 368 x 250 mm

Foliation

Paper, 131; [1-131]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Layout

After seven blank leaves, the first three pages are written freehand. 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. Some additional rulings in pencil.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Oakes (signature, f. 1r).
   
• Sold by McBlain Books, 2003.
   

Subjects topical

• Merchant ships--Great Britain

Genres

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

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