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).
46 leaves : paper; 205 x 145 (194 x 118) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm
Geographic Subject:
Great Britain -- Commerce; Great Britain
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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).; English.; Related Work: Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640. Merchants Map of Commerce.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 207
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