Details

Subjects:

Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Exchange -- Early works to 1800.
Exchange.
Coinage.
Weights and measures.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
Great Britain.
Commerce.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English.

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).
Pagination: Paper, 46; [ii], 1-90; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
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."
Binding: Contemporary parchment, with initials RW and BR on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Leghorn, 1632-1654 (p. i).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 52 (Ms. English 21).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 207

Contributor:

Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.

Related Work:

Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640. Merchants Map of Commerce.

OCLC:

155962840