Noticias del comercio maritimo y trafico entre España y su America / compuesto por Daniel de Medina.

Name:

Medina, Daniel de, 18th century

Date:

[after 1740]

Description:

Brief treatise on trade and maritime commerce between Spain and its colonies. The text is dated 1740 but this manuscript may have been copied as late as the early 19th century. The subjects of the treatise include piracy, the asiento (license or contract granting a monopoly) held by Great Britain on the slave trade in the Spanish colonies, commerce with America and the Philippines, and competition with Great Britain and Holland.

Identifier:

2013.06.19.00005

Language:

Spanish

Provenance:

Probably formerly owned by Spanish politican and scholar Diego Clemencín (label inside front cover with note, Biblioteca de Don Diego Clemencín), who was elected to Spain's Real Academia de Historia in 1800. Purchased by Arnold Kaplan with the Penn Libraries for the Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (Kedem Auction House, 21 May 2013, lot 565).

Subject:

Shipping -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.; Slave trade --Spain -- Colonies.; Spain -- Commerce -- New Spain -- Early works to 1800.; Slave trade; Enslaved persons

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

18 leaves : paper; 195 x 145 mm bound to 205 x 150 mm.

Geographic Subject:

Cuba -- Havana; Cuba; Spain

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/

Notes:

Title from title page (f. i recto). Collation: Paper, 18; 1¹⁸; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [i], 1-17. Layout: Written in 20-25 long lines. Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand. Elaborate watermark partially visible in gutter of title page (f. i recto). Binding: Leather, gilt-tooled; initials P on upper cover and B on lower cover; gilt spine with spine label Pap Var. Origin: Written in Havana or Spain, between 1740 (date of composition) and the early 19th century.

Physical Location:

MS 56, Codex 006.1

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)