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Démonstration de l'injuste [et] chimerique prétention que les directeurs de la Compagnie des Indes en Hollande forment, afin de faire révoquer, ou du moins rendre inutile l'octroy que Sa Majesté imperiale [et] catholique a accordé à ses sujets des Pays-Bas austrichiens pour l'établissement d'une compagnie de commerce [et] de navigation aux Indes orientales [et] occidentales : dediée a messeigneurs les Etats Géneraux des Provinces-Unies.

Publication:
[Belgium?], [between 1722 and 1731]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
51 leaves : paper ; 233 x 196 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Compagnie d'Ostende.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Commerce.
Belgium -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Netherlands -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1795.
Netherlands.
History.
Belgium.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Essays.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
French.
Summary:
Arguments against the opposition of the Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie to the Compagnie d'Ostende, established in the Austrian Netherlands by Charles VI in 1722.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1); date range based on the dates that the octroy of Charles VI was in effect.
Collation: Paper, 26 leaves; [1-2], 2-51, [52]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Pagination loss due to trimming.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Disbound quires, with remnants of binding material and glue.
Origin: Probably written in the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium) between 1722 and 1731.
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1959.
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. 64 (Ms. French 47).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 951.
OCLC:
155925601
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