'' Memorias históricas sobre la marina, comercio y artes de la antigua ciudad de Barcelona. ''(Historical Records on marine, trade and arts of the ancient city of Barcelona) is a summary paper on the
Navy
A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and ...
, the
trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market.
An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
and the
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
s of the city of
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, written by the famous
Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau
Antonio de Capmany y Montpalau (24 November 1742Cadis, Andalusia, 14 November 1813) was a Spanish polygraph.
Life
Campany was born at Barcelona, and studied logic and humanities at the Jesuit-run College of Bishops in Barcelona. He entered the a ...
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Description
It's a monumental magnum opus on the former Barcelona economy, noting the aspects that made the city one of the trading powers of the Mediterranean starting in the Middle Ages until well entered into the sixteenth century: its important merchant marine, strong guild structure and industrial productivity all supported by numerous documents from its archives, many of them unpublished until then.
The book was illustrated with cartoons headers and drawn by well-known artists (Camarón, Montaña, etc.) and copper gravures etched mostly by the artist Moles.
Antoni Palau comments: ''"..this basic title contains "an arsenal of documents and first-hand data" that compose altogether a very important work.."''
Together with the four volumes of ''Memorias históricas'', there is a fifth volume: "Code of maritime customs of Barcelona" that reproduces the
Book of the Consulate of the Sea
The ''Book of the Consulate of the Sea'' ( ca, Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit=''Book of the Consulate of Sea'') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Catalan origin, it was translated into m ...
of Barcelona, forming a collection of five volumes, with an extraordinary historical and documentary value about the history of
Catalan Navy
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.
Structure of the work
Great room, 4 vols.
: Vol. 1: 3 leaf, XXIV, 185, 260, 148, VI p;..
: Vol. 2: 2 sheet, XVI, 471, XIII, XXX, 124, III p;..
: Vol. 3: 2 sheet, XX, 377 p XI;..
: Vol. 4: 3 leaf, XXXIV, 418, p 133)...
Followed by:
: Vol. V: "Code of the maritime customs of Barcelona" 1 sheet, LXXXI, p 368;.. 1 sheet., 225 p.
See also
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Angelino Dulcert
Angelino Dulcert (floruit, fl. 1339), probably the same person known as Angelino de Dalorto (floruit, fl. 1320s), and whose real name was probably Angelino de Dulceto or Dulceti or possibly Angelí Dolcet, was an Italian people, Italian-Majorcan ca ...
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Portolan chart
Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word ''portolan'' comes from the Italian ''portulano'', meaning "related to ports or harbors", and whi ...
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Catalan cartography
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La Cartografía Mallorquina
''La Cartografía Mallorquina'' ('' Majorcan Cartography '') is a book of essays on the Majorcan portolans written by Professor Julio Rey Pastor with the collaboration of Ernesto García Camarero. It is a scholarly essay, a key element in the stu ...
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Próspero de Bofarull y Mascaró
Prospero de Bofarull y Mascaró (1777, in Reus – 1859) was a Spanish historian and archivist, archivist and director of the General Archive of the Crown of Aragon between 1814 and 1840 and from 1844 to 1849.
Biography
He has followed studies ...
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Abraham Cresques
Abraham Cresques (, 1325–1387), whose real name was Cresques (son of) Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca (then part of the Crown of Aragon). In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credite ...
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Consulate of the Sea
The Consulate of the Sea ( ca, Consolat de mar; ) was a quasi-judicial body set up in the Crown of Aragon, later to spread throughout the Mediterranean basin, to administer maritime and commercial law. The term may also refer to a celebrated co ...
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Book of the Consulate of the Sea
The ''Book of the Consulate of the Sea'' ( ca, Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit=''Book of the Consulate of Sea'') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Catalan origin, it was translated into m ...
References
External links
Portolan charts from S.XIII to S.XVI - Additions, Corrections, Updates
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History of Barcelona
1779 non-fiction books
Book series introduced in 1779
Nautical reference works
History of navigation
Spanish essays