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Add MS 8757

Record Id:
032-002029649
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029649
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0000ec
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8757
Title:

ACCOUNTS OF TRADE, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN FRANCE; 1745-1750. French. Copy. Detailed financial accounts of trade, commerce and industry in various towns and provinces of France for the year 1746, with a supplement for 1745-1750. Possibly compiled by one of the inspecteurs generaux of French industries under the director of commerce Antoine-Louis de Rouillé, Comte de Jouy, and the controller general of finances Jean-Baptiste de Machault, Comte d'Arnouville (1745-1754). Title (ff. 2-3) 'Situation actuelle des Provinces du Royaume de France en l'annèe 1746 / Ier Volume / (f. 3) Memoires concernant la situation actuelle des Provinces du Royaume par rapport au commerce et à l'industrie des villes aux manufactures, au denombrement des peuples et autres memoires', inc. (f. 8) 'Gènèralitè de Paris / Election de Paris / Ville de Paris / Pais d'election / Sa description est ici inutile', expl. (f. 131) 'dans les manufactures titrèes en l'annèe 1750 / Fin du 3me et dernier volume'. Divided in three volumes (ff. 2, 112, 218v). A table of contents at beginning of each volume (ff. 4-5, 113, 219); first volume preceded by Avertissement (ff. 6-7), and Observations (f. 7v); third volume including (ff. 294-313) a Suplement for the years 1745-1750. A note (f. 1) stating that the MS. was copied from papers belonging to Baron Dodo Heinrich Freiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, Prussian Ambassador at Paris (1754-1756), and compiled by his predecessor Marshal George Keith (1751-1754). Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. 1, 110, and ii verso; for the Colonna library stamp see Bragaglia, vol. iii, T 32: c. 1750. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '119' in pencil in top left corner of f. i verso. Purchased, together with Add. 8718, 8720, 8728, 8729, 8745, 8752, 8756, 8758, 8759, and 8760, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 119 (part).

Paper; ff. 313+ii. Old pagination in ink '1-620' (ff. 2-313v). 263 x 190mm. One French hand. 18th-cent. binding of vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 18th cent.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 2nd half 18th cent.

Trade and Commerce: Accounts: Louis XV of France: Accounts of trade and commerce in France: 1746-1750: Fr: Copy.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029649
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Hierarchy:
032-002029649
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1745
End Date:
1750
Date Range:
1745-1750
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Colonna family; of Rome: Owned, 2nd half of 18th cent.

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 119, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Colonna, Family
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Louis XV, of France, 1710-1774
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770