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Title

Notes concerning trade

Authors

• Williams, Robert
• Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640

Call number

Ms. Codex 207
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486433
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486433

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

1632-1654

Place

Leghorn

Summary

These notes are extracts from Lewes Roberts, Merchants Map of Commerce, first published in 1638. Deals with money, measures, weights and various commodities. It begins with London, 1632, and continues with information for various ports in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and northern seas, including Tunis, Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Seville, Lisbon, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Leghorn, Venice, Naples, Palermo, Smyrna, Constantinople, Alexandria, Moscow, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Antwerp. At the end there is more information on trade in Leghorn, dated 1654, and a list of books to be kept by a merchant. Also includes an alphabetical index of names of ports mentioned (p. ii).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (p. i).
   

Extent

46 leaves : 205 x 145 (194 x 118) mm. bound to 208 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 46; [ii], 1-90; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, with initials RW and BR on upper cover.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, with a few notes in a second hand, one of these, written beneath the title: "Memoir: R: Wms. arrived ... in Turkey ... 21th Febr[uar]y 1660/61. He dyed abo[ar]d ye Shippe Defor Capt. Rand Comd. about ye beginning of September following 1661."

Subjects topical

• Weights and measures--Early works to 1800
• Coinage--Early works to 1800
• Exchange--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• 65 — Diagram, p. 65