Levant Company handbook, circa 1719-1720
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book on commerce, including a collection of 193 Company ordinances, statistics of trade and manufacture, political documents affecting trade, descriptions of manufacturing, handy lists. Added to irregularly. Perhaps compiled in the early 18th century by a member of the Company as a vade-mecum, or by a contemporary economist.
Provides notes on, abstracts of, and charts of import-export statistics, tariffs, laws, and treaties, particularly for England, France, and the Levant, dating from 1662-1719; Company ordinances, arranged by subject, dating from 1618-1687; Company charter, oaths; documents and laws concerning the Company; and foreign relations between Turkey, England, and the Levant Company, dating from 1606-1677; ships, fisheries, import-export information for several spots in the Americas, dating from 1714-1720; and handy charts of measures, money, fees, etc., essays on silk, wool, and other products and manufactures, some notes on 16th century economics, and other miscellaneous notes on commerce.
Partial indexes appear on pages [ii-iii] and [383-385].
Dates
- Creation: circa 1719-1720
Full Extent
1 volume : Apparently a single informal 18th-century hand, probably the compiler's. Vellum binding, paper support. 1 watermark examined: Seven Provinces (17th-18th cents.) Some headings and side-notes very faint: probably originally in red.
Other Finding Aids
A detailed transcription of the volume's contents and more information about the provenance of the volume is available at ksrl.sc.levantcompanyhandbook.pdf.
Custodial History
The volume has an early 19th century armorial bookplate for "Ambrose Lisle Phillipps of Garendon," probably for Ambrose Lisle March-Phillipps de Lisle (1809-1878). Spencer Research Library acquired the volume in the Hoffman-Freeman "Consignment 1," item 2.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository