Travells into Holland &c., an anonymous diary of an Englishman's tour of Holland, Belgium, and France during 1687

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Trv d 2
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1687
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 vol. (51 ff., paginated 1-102), manuscript. Written in a single neat seventeenth-century hand with the text on each page set out regularly within red ruled lines and with running headings. Bound in leather with gilt and decorated tooling on both covers and the spine, and with marbling on both inside covers and endpapers.

Scope and Content

Contains an account of a seventeenth-century Englishman's tour from London on Thursday, 30 June, 1687 to Holland, Belgium, and France, arriving back in London on Tuesday, 22 November, 1687.

Administrative / Biographical History

The compiler of this manuscript is unknown.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Grinke's bookshop on 5 November 1982.

Note

In English.