Volume 1

"A continuation of Sir John Chardin's Travels to Persia and other Eastern parts. Translated into English ... and never yet published. Containing also some parts of Le Bruyn's Travels."

Though the title is as given above, and the spines of both volumes are lettered "Sir John Chardin's Travels continu'd", all except the first 40 ff. of the first volume is devoted to Bruin's Travels. These 40 ff. contain Chardin's first journey from Ispahan to Bander Abassi. This started on January 1st 1674, but in this MS. the narrative stops at the middle of the entry for February 12 of that year. This is followed by "The travels of Cornelius le Brun through Muscovy and Persia to the East Indys, the coast of Malabar, the Island of Ceylon, Batavia, Bantam and other places": chapters 50 to the beginning of Chapter 68 (140 ff.). The rest of Vol.1 consists of Chapters 15 and 16 of the same work written by another hand. Bruin's Journeys are dated 1703-1706.

On the first leaf of Vol. 1 is the signature of Joseph Smith. The first 40 ff. of Vol. 1 and the following 140 ff. of this volume are written apparently by Joseph Smith himself.