Regulations for Venetian trade, 1735-1739

Manuscript volume containing a collection of copy regulations and decrees relating to Venetian commerce, 1735-1739, some printed, including broadsheets on tarifs, and levies paid by couriers to Italian cities, and tables of duty paid on goods imported into and out of Verona, 1738-1739.

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.

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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.

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Manuscript folios. Bound in quarter-vellum.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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This manuscript contains the bookplate of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guildford.

University of London MS 79 also relates to Venetian commerce.