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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medina, Daniel de, 18th century.

Contributor:

Clemencín, Diego, 1765-1834, former owner.

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.

Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Kaplan Term Acquisition Fund.

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

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Shipping--Spain--Early works to 1800.

Shipping.

Slave trade--Colonies--Spain.

Slave trade.

Colonies.

Commerce.

Spain.

Spain--Commerce--New Spain--Early works to 1800.

New Spain.

Genre:

Codices.

Treatises.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn 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) (Collectify accession no. 2013.06.19.00005).

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Cuba or Spain], [publisher not identified], [after 1740]

Language Note:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

Member of the elite Creole social class in Havana, Cuba, in the 18th century.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: El comercio

2. f.1v-2v: Las costas de España

3. f.2v-4r: Assiento de Negros

4. f.4r-6r: Nuestro comercio en America

5. f.6v-9v: El comercio con Philipinas

6. f.10r-15v: Trafico con la America

7. f.15v-16v: El comercio clandestino en America

8. f.16v-17v: America.

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kaplan Term Acquisition Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS MS 56, Codex 006.1.

OCLC:

1057687805