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

Title

Authors

• Medina, Daniel de, 18th century

Other related names

• Clemencín, Diego, 1765-1834, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89636731)
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959615133503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1057687805
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3wp9tc26 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366295 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229052

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

after 1740

Place

Cuba or Spain

Summary

Brief treatise on trade and maritime commerce between Spain and its colonies. The text is dated 1740 but this manuscript may have been copied as late as the early 19th century. The subjects of the treatise include piracy, the asiento (license or contract granting a monopoly) held by Great Britain on the slave trade in the Spanish colonies, commerce with America and the Philippines, and competition with Great Britain and Holland.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   
• 1. f.1r-1v: El comercio -- 2. f.1v-2v: Las costas de España -- 3. f.2v-4r: Assiento de Negros -- 4. f.4r-6r: Nuestro comercio en America -- 5. f.6v-9v: El comercio con Philipinas -- 6. f.10r-15v: Trafico con la America -- 7. f.15v-16v: El comercio clandestino en America -- 8. f.16v-17v: America.
   
• Elaborate watermark partially visible in gutter of title page (f. i recto).
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Probably formerly owned by Spanish politican and scholar Diego Clemencín (label inside front cover with note, Biblioteca de Don Diego Clemencín), who was elected to Spain's Real Academia de Historia in 1800.
   
• Purchased by Arnold Kaplan with the Penn Libraries for the Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (Kedem Auction House, 21 May 2013, lot 565) (Collectify accession no. 2013.06.19.00005).
   

Subjects topical

• Shipping--Spain--Early works to 1800
• Slave trade--Colonies--Spain
• Slave trade
• Colonies
• Commerce
• Shipping
• Spain
• Spain--Commerce--New Spain--Early works to 1800
• New Spain

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts MS 56, Codex 006.1: Noticias del comercio maritimo y trafico entre España y su America / are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title page