[Memoranda and observations on the Compagnie des Indes]
- Description
- 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.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, French
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1724 to 1750
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Compagnie des Indes
- Commerce
- History
- Geographic Subject
- France -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century
- France
- Extent
- 49 leaves : paper ; 245 x 186 to 326 x 210 mm bound to 337 x 220 mm
- 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.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-34r: Mémoire qui démontre l'utilité de la Compagnie des Indes et la necessité de la maintenir; Mémoire pour la Compagnie des Indes.
- Table of contents: 2. f.34r-45v: Observations sur la Compagnie des Indes.
- 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.
- Script: Written in a cursive script.
- Binding: 20th-century library binding.
- Origin: Written in France, 1724-1750.
- French.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35q4rk9c
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1031
- Provenance
- Sold by Librairie de l'Abbaye (Paris), 1967.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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