Details

Subjects:

Merchant ships -- Great Britain.
Merchant ships.
India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
India.
Great Britain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Ships' logs.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Biography/History:

A 755-ton Indiaman which made six trips between England and India. After the second trip, in 1789-1790, it was purchased by Robert Wigram, owner and builder of many Blackwall frigates.

Summary:

Documentation of a voyage between England, Calcutta, and Madras in 1789-1790, under Captain Thomas Foxall. Includes notes on course, distance, and position; weather observations; vessels sighted; and cargo loaded and unloaded.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 131; [1-131]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: After seven blank leaves, the first three pages are written freehand. The remaining pages are divided into upper and lower halves with a complex ruling in ink of six columns of various widths, each of 12 lines, in each half. Some additional rulings in pencil.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Pencil sketch of "Island Ice" with the notation "Lat. 41.7 Long. 19.46" at back of book after regular log pages.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written on board the General Goddard during a trip from England to Calcutta and Madras in 1789-1790.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John Oakes (signature, f. 1r).
Sold by McBlain Books, 2003.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 939

OCLC:

155925540