Details

Subjects:

Marseille (France) -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manifests (shipping records)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Collection of cargo manifests for merchandise leaving the port of Marseille, on printed sheets with details of the date, ship, captain, owner, and quantities of cargo filled in by hand for each vessel. Also includes printed tables: a table listing information alphabetically by the name of the captain, a table showing the destinations of the ships, and a table summarizing all the information for the year 1787. The summary includes the name Sieur Gaspard Reboul, possibly an official of the port responsible for the documents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from printed final folio, caption heading for the summary statement.
Foliation: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 79 + i (contemporary paper); [1-79]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script primarily by one hand.
Binding: Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked.
Origin: Written in Marseille, 1787.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 817

Contributor:

Reboul, Gaspard.

OCLC:

155912543