Details

Subjects:

Compagnie des Indes.
Commerce.
History.
France -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

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.

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.
2. f.34r-45v: Observations sur la Compagnie des Indes.

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.
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.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Librairie de l'Abbaye (Paris), 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 28 (Ms. French 131).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1031

Contains:

Mémoire qui démontre l'utilité de la Compagnie des Indes et la necessité de la maintenir.
Observations sur la Compagnie des Indes.

OCLC:

155928866