Manila Financial Instruments Database - Correspondencias 1736-1800 2.0 (MFID-Correspondencias)

Database with all the extant correspondencia (sea loan) contracts collected from the surviving notarial protocol books of Manila in the years between 1736 and 1800. It also include traces of the correspondencia contracts, such as cancellations, letters of payment, and the audit of fiscal Villacorta in 1752 (original documents in AGI). 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.

The database includes information on each individual transaction, including year, takers, guarantors, investors, quantity, premium, destination, and the vessels in which it travels. It includes directories of individuals, travels, and institutions. 

NOTE: The database is organized by individual transaction, it includes an index specifying the sources, and each transaction is referenced to the protocol book in which it is inscribed, but arranged by the year in which the transaction took place. On the folio references, the extant sources are in some cases very damaged. Since the sources I consulted were mostly the microfilms held in Madrid, I have annotated the folios based on the organization of the archive rather than the numbering of the protocol books themselves, since several pages are missing in many of them and others have their edges too damaged to read the original numbering.

NOTE: This is the improved version of the Manila Financial Instruments Database (MFID) - Correspondencias 1.0, published previously in Zenodo (10.5281/zenodo.10277780). 

I shall keep expanding this database as new information becomes available. I am also looking for any collaboration or input of data on Manila correspondencias that cannot be found in the notarial archives.