Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Sirven, Jean
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Le Peletier Des Forts, Michel-Robert, 1675-1740, addressee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010093848)
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00004988)
• Stanitz, John D, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no89002502)
• Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055106)

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957833093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798129809
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs180_item6.html https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3154dz7f

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1728

Summary

4 related documents tied together with ribbon: the first is a letter written after November 1728 to the contrôleur général des finances (position held by Michel-Robert Le Peletier Des Forts, 1726-1730), signed by Jean Sirven, in which he reviews the history of his privilege to manufacture steel, originally granted by Louis XV in 1716, and introduces the attached documents. Attached are a report by Pierre Joseph Doucet, representative of the intendant of the department of Vienne, on a visit in November 1728 to Sirven's operation; a copy of a record of a payment made by Le Peletier des Forts to Sirven in March 1728, with a signature by Sirven attesting to the accuracy of the copy; and a copy of an order for a payment to be made to Sirven in January 1728, with a signature by Sirven attesting to the accuracy of the copy.

Extent

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of ms. 836.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
   

Subjects topical

• Steel industry and trade--France--History--18th century
• Steel industry and trade
• History
• Technology--Early works to 1800
• Technology
• France
• France--History--Louis XV, 1715-1774

Genres

• History
• Manuscripts, European
• Early works
• Manuscripts, French--18th century

Keywords

• Document
• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper

Licenses

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