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Paper, 'A short discourse of ye motif and manner of erecting in the low countries A Monti di Pieta' by Van Helmont [written in the hand of Henry Oldenburgh, Secretary of the Royal Society]

Reference number: CLP/24/47

Date: 17th century

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A description of the 'Monte di Pieta', an institutional pawnbroker run as a charity, 'whose point it was to receive ye goods of poor people, to value you aright and to lend you thereupon at least 3/4 of ye whole value.' Description of these in the low countries [Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg].

Subject: Anthropology

Reference number
CLP/24/47
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17th century
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Oldenburg

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Henry Oldenburg, Paper, 'A short discourse of ye motif and manner of erecting in the low countries A Monti di Pieta' by Van Helmont [written in the hand of Henry Oldenburgh, Secretary of the Royal Society], 17th century, CLP/24/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_24_47/paper-a-short-discourse-of-ye-motif-and-manner-of-erecting-in-the-low-countries-a-monti-di-pieta-by-van-helmont-written-in-the-hand-of-henry-oldenburgh-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 January 2025

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