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Senate House Library, University of London

Regulations for Venetian trade, 1703-1760

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 79

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Regulations for Venetian trade, 1703-1760

Date(s): 1703-1760

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Republic of Venice was created around 1140. It was headed by the Doge, and led by the Great Council, who controlled all political and administrative business. Ludovico Manin, the last doge, was deposed by Napoléon Bonaparte on May 12, 1797. A provisional democratic municipality was set up in place of the republican government, but later in the same year Venice was handed over to Austria.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Three manuscript volumes containing decrees, legal judgements, and conventions regulating Venetian trade, 29 Nov 1703-29 Mar 1760.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

Three volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in vellum.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The manuscripts contain the bookplate of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford (d 1827), and were later part of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792-1872) as MSS 5570-2.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

University of London MS 103 also relates to Venetian trade.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.