| Description | Anonymous description of a journey from Dover to Venice, via Calais, Abbeville, Paris, Chalons, Lyon, Marseille, St Remo, Genoa, Regio, Mantua, Padua. Refers to art, architecture, inhabitants, landscape, local customs, executions, Barbary corsairs, galley slaves, Jewish ghetto and Siamese twins at Regio, etc. Comprises 44 surviving pages; some have been removed and one damaged. Commences Mar 1719. Volume contains later insertions: philosophical notes, in pencil, 20c; transcription of Latin verses, in biro, 20c; 'journal of three months of our late servant', in pencil, ?20c; note of events of one week, Jul 1829; notes of book titles, 18c; notes of travel costs, 18c; note by Godfrey, 18c; draft letters, 18c; notes on the incarnation, sacrament, prayer, with spiritual verses and thoughts, c1829. Very detailed description of Venice and its art and architecture |