Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/145 - LEVANT COMPANY

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 CLC/B/145

Title

LEVANT COMPANY

Date(s)

  • [1700] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 production unit.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

The Levant Company was founded in 1581 to regulate trade between England and Turkey.

Archival history

GB 0074 CLC/B/145 [1700] Collection 1 production unit. Levant Company

The Levant Company was founded in 1581 to regulate trade between England and Turkey.

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Levant Company, comprising English translation of the Company charter of 1661.

One volume.

Available for general access.

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Documents from the Radcliffe family papers relating to the Levant Company (1692-1719), which were formerly at Guildhall Library (ie Ms 6642-3), have been transferred to Hertfordshire Record Office, where they have been re-united with the remainder of the Radcliffe papers.

The main archives of the Levant Company (1606-1866) are at the National Archives, classes SP 105 and SP 110. Other items are at the British Library and the Bodleian Library.

See A. C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company (Oxford 1935). A copy of the full Hertfordshire Record Office catalogue of the Radcliffe papers, compiled 1986, and including the manuscripts returned by Guildhall Library together with further material relating to the Levant trade is now held by the Printed Books Section of Guildhall Library at B/R 125.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

January to May 2011. International instruments Trade (practice) Overseas trade Information sources Documents Business records Trade Trade policy Trade regulation Charters Levant Company England UK Western Europe Europe Turkey Middle East International law

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of the Levant Company, comprising English translation of the Company charter of 1661.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

One volume.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Documents from the Radcliffe family papers relating to the Levant Company (1692-1719), which were formerly at Guildhall Library (ie Ms 6642-3), have been transferred to Hertfordshire Record Office, where they have been re-united with the remainder of the Radcliffe papers.

The main archives of the Levant Company (1606-1866) are at the National Archives, classes SP 105 and SP 110. Other items are at the British Library and the Bodleian Library.

Finding aids

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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Description identifier

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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