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

Title

Memoranda and observations on the Compagnie des Indes

Call number

Ms. Codex 1031
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3897153
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3897153

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1724 and 1750

Place

France

Summary

Two originally separate documents concerning the Compagnie des Indes, one in favor of the Compagnie written in the mid-1720s and one in favor of free trade and against the Compagnie written in the mid-1740s.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• The individual records for the two documents bound into this volume may be found by doing a title search for UPenn Ms. Codex 1031.
   

Extent

49 leaves : 245 x 186 to 326 x 210 mm. bound to 337 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 49 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-31, [32-50]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century library binding.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Librairie de l'Abbaye (Paris), 1967.
   

Subjects topical

• Compagnie des Indes

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Me?moire qui de?montre l'utilite? de la Compagnie des Indes et la necessite? de la maintenir, f. 1r
• fol. 34r — Observations sur la Compagnie des Indes, f. 34r