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Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII
- Record Id:
- 040-001104081
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x0000e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100178830921.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII
- Title:
- Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, 1611
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains fragments of five leaves from a journal recording an English account of a voyage to the East Indies in 1611, which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731.
The names of ships mentioned in the journal include the 'Release', the 'Darling' and the 'Peppercorn', the last two of which are known to have belonged to the East India Company (founded in 1600), initially formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, and which later seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent. The 'Darling' and the 'Peppercorn' are also named as part of the East India Company fleet under the command of the sea captain and adventurer Sir Henry Middleton (d. 1613) in an account by Nicholas Downton (b. 1561, d. 1615) of his voyage to the East Indies, dated 1613 (now Cotton MS Otho E VIII, ff. 246r-247v). The same manuscript includes an account of Middleton's escape from the port city of Mokha in 1611 (ff. 244r-245r), and his subsequent voyage and proceedings, addressed to Sir Arthur Chichester (b. 1563, d. 1625), Deputy of Ireland.
Contents:
ff. 1r-5v: Fragments of a journal of a voyage of the East Indies, written in English; dated 1611.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001104081 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Fragments XXVIII : Journal of a voyage to the East Indies, 1611 - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1363]/040-001104081
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100178830921.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Condition: Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Dimensions: Approximately 320 × 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. 5 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and numerous unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: 17th-century secretary hand.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Grey cloth binding; blue endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England or East Indies.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet.
Sir John Cotton bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Prescott, Andrew, ""Their Present Miserable State of Cremation": The Restoration of the Cotton Library', in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed. by C. J. Wright (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 391-454.
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), p. 231.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)