MRP: Smyrna

Smyrna

Editorial history

20/12/11, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See Aleppo
See Constantinople
See Galatia
See Tripoli
See Tunis

See Venice

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Images

Golfo di Smirne, 1664

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Detail of Golfo de Smirne, 1664

Detail of Smirna in 'Carta Maritima del Golfo di Smirne', Francecsco M. Levanto (XXXX, 1664)

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Town plan

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Vue de Port de Smyrne, Le Brun, 1714

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Image credits & copyright information

(1) Levanto, Francecsco M., 'Carta Maritima del Golfo di Smirne', (XXXX, 1664)
- Sourced, with thanks, from RareCharts, South Carolina

(2) Levanto, Francecsco M., Detail of 'Carta Maritima del Golfo di Smirne', (XXXX, 1664)
- Sourced, with thanks, from RareCharts, South Carolina

(3) Le Brun, Corneille, 'Vue du port de Smyrne', in Illustrations de Voyage au Levant (Paris, 1714), pl. dépl. en reg. p. 21
- taille-douce : n. et b. ; 31 x 188 cm et moins
- Mulder, grav.; R. Du Val, dess. ; Corneille Le Brun, aut. du texte
- Out of copyright text and image
- Sourced from Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.bnf.fr, for non-commercial use

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Mentions in wiki primary documents

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Other correspondence

See 18th July, 1656, Letter from Spencer Bretton to Levant Company, Smirna

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Legal

See C6/85/17 f. 1

- The London merchant Gyles Davies exhibited in 1654 in Chancery a Bill of Complaint against the brothers and London merchants Nathaniell and Samuell Barnardiston, together with co-defendants James Muddiford (alias Modyford), Anthony Issackson and John Williams, together with confederates unknown.

Attached to the Bill of Complaint was a schedule of charges and costs C6/85/17 f. 2, which Davies claimed were due unto him from the defendants for services he had performed as a factor for them six years before, in 1647 and 1648.

At that time Gyles Davies and been located in Gallata, Constantinople, and the Barnardiston brothers had been located in Smyrna, both within Turkey. Davies claimed in his Bill that he had been the legally empowered factor of the Barnardiston brothers, and that he had been consigned in Gallata a parcel of Venetian paper and silks to sell, barter, or exchange. Davies had allegedly made a provisional bargain for their sale when he received a new letter of instruction to transfer the goods to William Gough, another merchant. In the absence of legal authority he had not done so. Subsequently the Barnardiston brothers refused to pay his charges and costs, contrary to the practice of merchants in Turkey.

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Wills

See PROB 11/289 Pell 150-199 Will of Spencer Bretton of Smyrna 25 April 1659

See PROB 11/221 Bowyer 52-106 Will of John Pixly, Merchant of Smyrna, Turkey 16 March 1652

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Suggested image sources

'View of Smyrna harbour,' Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas Historique et Methodique (Amsterdam, 1714)
- The atlas was published in seven volumes

'Carta Maritima del Golfo di Smirne', in Francescao M. Levanto, "La Prima Parte dello Specchio del Mare" (Sea Mirror) (XXXX, 1664)
- Rare portolan-style sea chart of east coast of Chios, Greece and the coast of Turkey around Izmir by Genoan cartographer Francesco Maria Levanto. Charming oblique profile depicitions of Smirne (Izmir) and Sio (Chios, Greece). Charts of Turkey from the mid 17th century are quite scarce
- From Levanto's "La Prima Parte dello Specchio del Mare" (Sea Mirror). Probably based on earlier Dutch charts, possibly influenced by Jacobsz. Place names and notes in Dutch and Italian. With an inset coastal profile and an elaborate decorative cartouche

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