An itinerary . vvritten by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English: containing his ten yeeres trauell through the tvvelue dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Jtaly, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Diuided into III parts. The I. part. Containeth a iournall through all the said twelue dominions: shewing particularly the number of miles, the soyle of the country, the situation of cities, the descriptions of them, with all monuments in each place worth the seeing, as also the rates of hiring coaches or horses from place to place, with each daies expences for diet, horse-meate, and the like. The II. part. Containeth the rebellion of Hugh, Earle of Tyrone, and the appeasing thereof: written also in forme of a iournall. The III. part. Containeth a discourse vpon seuerall heads, through all the said seuerall dominions.
Fynes Moryson (1566-1630)
Category
Books
Date
1617
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3027767
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 84, 83-106, 109-295, [1], 301, [1], 292, [2] p. . ill. (woodcuts) . fol. With a seventeenth-century manuscript poem on half-title verso, transcribed in typescript (laid in): Life is a Torment Louing I am not belou'd/ By this nor greater Scornes to be moud/ Butt patiently attend untill I bee/ by ye Impartiall hand of Death made free ... John Ffiennes". Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Inscribed on titlepage: Thos W [S?]urman. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; double blind fillets; vertical lines parallel to spine, rebacked. With pencil note "RWCK rebound 1946" [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Red-stained edges.
Makers and roles
Fynes Moryson (1566-1630)