Excerpts of documents written from 1602 to 1611 regarding shipping between Spain and the New World. Written in Spain after 1611, the last date mentioned in the text. Span folios: ff. 1-10v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Similar to Croix Latine, Briquet 5704, Perpignan 1595, but here with the initials B.F. Layout: 5 bifolia of which the first and the last appear to function as folded sheets while the middle 3 bifolia are placed inside one another to make a gathering of 6 leaves. 38-39 long lines, unruled, and set to the far right of the page, leaving no... Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/15/2012. On f. 1, upper left corner, "39" in ink, possibly indicating its number in a series of Spanish documents; in center of upper margin, "33," in pencil. On the first leaf of most books of HM 177, with whose volume 2 HM 37542 was formerly bound, a small section has been clipped out, possibly to remove some identifying marks, and replaced with matching paper on which the original text was recopied...
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