Contains probably a nearly contemporary copy of the diary kept by Sir Charles Somerset of his tour through France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands between April 1611 and May 1612.
Liber Caro, a diary of a tour through western Europe in 1611-1612, by Sir Charles Somerset
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Trv q 3
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1612
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. ([iv], 179, [6]pp.), manuscript. Written in a single neat seventeenth-century hand with pagination throughout the main text and ruled lines around it. Bound in leather with rubbed gilt and decorated tooling including the initials "C S" on both outside covers and text and bibliographical notes in a different twentieth-century hand concerning Sir Charles Somerset on the inside back cover.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Sir Charles Somerset (ca. 1588-1665), a son of the earl of Worcester, was an English Catholic courtier. The writer of this manuscript copy of his diary is unknown.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Dawson's bookshop on 21 April 1976.
Note
In English.
Other Finding Aids
See the edition of this manuscript by M.G. Brennan, cited below, pp.38-47.
Bibliography
See the edition of this manuscript by M.G. Brennan, The travel diary (1611-1612) of an English Catholic, Sir Charles Somerset, Leeds: the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1993.