Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Tratado y discurso sobre la moneda de vellon

Authors

• Mariana, Juan de, 1535-1624

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1361
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4444631
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4444631

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1799

Place

Madrid

Summary

Treatise on monetary policy, the devaluation of currency, and the limits on the king's power in these matters, written in 1609 and printed the same year in Cologne. Translated into Spanish by the author from his original in Latin. Chapter titles include El rey no puede vajar la moneda de peso o de ley sin la voluntada del pueblo (f. 13v); De los valores que tiene la moneda (f. 17r); El fundamento de la contratacion es la moneda, pesos y medida (f. 21r); and Los inconvenientes q[ue] hay en acuñar esta moneda (f. 28r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Watermark

Similar to Valls i Subirá, Elias, 315.

Extent

88 leaves : 214 x 152 mm. bound to 218 x 159 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 88 leaves + iii; [i, 1-87]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 18-19 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (inscription, f. i, 1903; bookplate inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Money--Spain--Early works to 1800
• Coinage--Spain--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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