Autograph MS travel diary, covering three extended tours on the Continent. Colebrande's first tour (p. 1-41) was in France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Orleans, Brittany, etc.); his second (p. 45-74) was also entirely in France; and on his third (p. 77-215) he travelled through France and into Italy (Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, Venice, Milan) and back again across the Alps via Savoy, Geneva, etc., to Paris and Calais. At the end, various miscellaneous entries contain several receipts for varnishes and gildings and for making "stones of a paste;" several pages of advice for English travellers from France to Italy; and an account of the great Council of the Jews in Hungary, 12 Oct 1650, "by Samu. Brett who was there present."
Description:
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., With 18th century bookplate of Lord Walpole of Wolterton., and Written from from and back. Paginated [i-x], 1-[59] from back.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Switzerland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Brett, Samuel,--fl. 1655.
Subject (Topic):
Gilding., Jews--History., Jews--Hungary., Precious stones, Artificial., and Varnish and varnishing.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of notes concerning the French nobility. The manuscript begins with genealogical histories of various French noble houses, including those of Lorraine; Savoy; Languedoc; Luxembourg; and Orleans. Other entries in the manuscript include an account of the French royal family; a list of the French nobility; and copies of letters of 1602 from Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon to King Henri IV and from the King to the authorities of the Dauphine about Bouillon. The collection also contains a number of entries in English, including a travel diary recording a journey from Blois to La Rochelle and an essay in English about the Swiss alliance with France. Dos-a-dos appears a list of Biblical kings.
Description:
Binding: full limp parchment; gilt decoration., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Text begins from both ends. Pagination provided by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Court and courtiers., France--Description and travel., France--Foreign relations--Switzerland., France--Kings and rulers., and Switzerland--Foreign relations--France.
Subject (Name):
Bouillon, Henri de la Tour-d'Auvergne,--Duc de,--1555-1623. and Henry--IV,--King of France,--1553-1610.
Subject (Topic):
Genealogy--France., Nobility--France., and Travelers' writings, English.