Manila Financial Instruments Database - Correspondencias 1736-1800 1.0

Database on the extant correspondencia (sea loan) contracts issued in the city of Manila between 1736-1800. Data gathered from the notarial protocols of the city. Data includes traces of correspondencia contracts, including the syngraphas, cancellations of sea loans, and cartas de lasto. The database has observations for the surviving years between 1736-1800 and is a compilation of all surviving traces of the contract, including information on the issuer, the taker, the guarantors, destination of the correspondencia, quantity, premium, name of the vessel in which it travels, and name of the vessel's captain. INFORMATION: This version of the database is in Excel spreadsheets organized per year, not per notarial book. Each Excel spreadsheet has the correspondencia contracts or the related evidence (i.e. carta de lasto or cancellation) assigned on a yearly-basis. Information regarding the book in which the contract was recorded is provided in the columns. The purpose is to help visualize the annual distribution, and Excel is amenable to be transformed by researchers. My intention is to release a 2.0 of all contracts in a single spreadsheet so that it can be changed into whichever software system is most amenable to the researcher for IDing. DISCLAIMER: The database is in Spanish. Priority has been given to trying to replicate and unify the information in the sources, rather than organizing the data in any particular way. Data collected from the Microfilm copies stored in the Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás in Madrid, open for consultation. Colección de Microfilmes de la Sección de Documentos Españoles del Archivo Nacional de Filipinas. Archivo del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (ACCHS-CSIC). Original documents stored in National Archive of the Philippines. I am still working of the indexes at the end of the database, but the substantial data is all collected. The final version is therefore not ready yet, but available upon request if it is necessary for your work. Email. I shall make fully public once the indexes are finalised. I am also looking for any collaboration or input of data on Manila correspondencias that cannot be found in the notarial archives.