This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the
entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert Bargrave
(1628-61), recording his extensive travels as a merchant. This
manuscript (now Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 799), describes
four separate journeys made by Bargrave: his sea voyage from
England to Constantinople; an arduous return journey overland from
Constantinople to England, via Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Germany,
and the Low Countries; extensive travels, for both commercial and
cultural purposes, in Spain, Sicily, Italy and the Morea; and a
return journey from Venice to Margate, via Trento, Innsbruck, and
Augsburg, including his visit to Heidelberg where he met the exiled
English royalist community at the court of Elizabeth, Queen of
Bohemia. The introduction to the edition gives detailed
consideration to the political, religious, and personal
affiliations of the Bargraves, a prominent Kentish family, with
special reference to their experiences of overseas travel. While
abroad, Robert also twice met up with his cousin, John Bargrave (c.
1610-80), the noted traveller and antiquarian. The introduction
also provides an assessment of the historical, literary, and
geographical importance of Robert Bargrave's journey; a survey of
his extensive musical and dramatic interests; and the first
detailed account of the provenances of both MS Rawlinson C 799 and
now a lost earlier draft of this journal, identified here as the
Eastry Court Manuscript. The edition includes seventeen
illustrations, Bargrave family trees, and a selective bibliography
of primary and secondary sources consulted.
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