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Tratado y discurso sobre la moneda de vellon : que al presente se labra en Castilla y de algunos desordenes y abusos / escrito por el p[adr]e Juan de Mariana en idioma latino y traducido en castellano por el mismo e impreso en Colonia año de 1609.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1361
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Mariana, Juan de, 1536-1624.
- Language:
- Latin
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Money--Spain--Early works to 1800.
- Money.
- Coinage--Spain--Early works to 1800.
- Coinage.
- History.
- Spain--History--Philip III, 1598-1621--Early works to 1800.
- Spain.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (inscription, f. i, 1903; bookplate inside upper cover).
- Physical Description:
- 88 leaves : paper ; 214 x 152 mm bound to 218 x 159 mm
- Production:
- Madrid, 1799.
- Language Note:
- Spanish.
- Biography/History:
- Jesuit priest and historian.
- Summary:
- Treatise on monetary policy, the devaluation of currency, and the limits on the king's power in these matters, written in 1609 and printed the same year in Cologne. Translated into Spanish by the author from his original in Latin. Chapter titles include El rey no puede vajar la moneda de peso o de ley sin la voluntada del pueblo (f. 13v); De los valores que tiene la moneda (f. 17r); El fundamento de la contratacion es la moneda, pesos y medida (f. 21r); and Los inconvenientes q[ue] hay en acuñar esta moneda (f. 28r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 2r).
- Foliation: Paper, i + 88 leaves + iii; [i, 1-87]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
- Layout: Written in 18-19 long lines.
- Script: Written in a cursive script.
- Watermark: Similar to Valls i Subirá, Elias, 315.
- Binding: 19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in Madrid in 1799.
- 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. 181 (Ms. Lea 157).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1361
- OCLC:
- 301797890
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