Shelfmark
MS 239
Main entry--corporate name
Title
A copy of Anglo-Portuguese treaties from the late 17th and 18th centuries. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Portugal, not before 1784.
Physical description
1 volume (40 leaves) : paper ; 34 x 23 cm.
Note
Transcriptions of a number of diplomatic agreements between England and Portugal, ranging in date from 1641 to 1784.
Note
Devised title.
Note
According to fol. 1r, this copy made for John Whitehead, British consul to Porto.
Note
Written in a professional hand.
Note
Final 24 leaves are blank.
Note
Ruled in lead.
Note
Inscription on front flyleaf: received from London 28/12/1906. R. Stewart. Two sheets containing a list of dates within the documents have been inserted, with Stewart's signature.
Note
Eton College Library booklabel on front pastedown with inscription: Given by Mr Amyas Warre, Nov 1925. Amyas Warre was the brother of Francis Warre-Cornish, Vice-Provost of Eton 1893-1916.
Binding
Contemporary stiff board case, covered in embossed and coloured paper; five sewn bands; brown sprinkled edges.
Subject
Commercial treaties.
Subject
Great Britain Foreign relations Portugal.
Subject
Portugal Foreign relations Great Britain.
Added entry--place
Portugal
Language code
lat por
Identifier
B46685