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List of Manuscripts

The following chart gives a complete listing of the documents from the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel that have been used to recreate the orders of the STN in this database.

Documents were consulted following to a strict hierarchy according to the quality of data that they contained for a given period. First preference was given to the Brouillards (also known as Journals, Copies des comptes, and in draft form, Mains courantes followed by the Rencontres. Both these sources in theory give all purchases and sales by the STN over a given period. Where these documents were not available, Livres de Commissions were consulted, where they existed, but these only give partial sales records. To fill the brief chronological gaps where none of these sources were available, the individual correspondence dossiers of book trade clients whose correspondence spanned the hiatus, in search of documents providing what we called ‘solid accounting evidence’ – proof positive that a book was not only ordered but delivered on a certain date.

In addition, any documents that might provide supplementary data were consulted, and these include the surviving petty cash books Caisse, records of small account holders, menus débiteurs, lists of books held on the STN’s account etc.. One particularly important source for a period when other documentation was almost entirely lacking was the dossier (MS 1145) of the STN agent Durand’s sales tour between July 1787 and November 1788.


MS numberMS name
1000Rencontre
1000ASociété typographique, correspondants, répértoire géographique.
1001Rencontre
1002Rencontre
1003Rencontre
1007Rencontre
1010Marchandises pour notre compte
1016Livre de commissions B n.2.
1017Livre de commissions
1018Livre de commissions
1021Livre de commissions
1022Livre de comptes des Menus D
1022Main Courante
1024Journal C
1025Copie de Comptes C
1026Journal
1027Comptes Dec 1782
1028Journal Ci
1030Main Courante
1031Main Courante
1032Main Courante
1033Brouillard A
1034Brouillard B
1035Brouillard C
1036Brouillard D
1037Divers 1779-1781
1038Livre de caisse n. 2.
1042Bilans
1043Caisse
1043Dossier
1044Livre de menus-debiteurs A
1050-1055Carnet pour les ouvriers/Banque des ouvriers.
1095CLA1: Copies des Lettres A1 (Jul. 1769 - Dec. 1771).
1096CLA2: Copies des Lettres A2 (Aug. 1771 - Jan. 1772).
1098CLC1: Copies des Lettres C1 (Mar. 1773 - Apr. 1774).
1099CLC2: Copies des Lettres C2 (Feb. 1773 - Apr. 1774).
1101CLE: Copies des Lettres E (Jun. 1775 - Dec. 1776).
1103CLF: Copies des Lettres F (Jan. 1777 - Feb. 1778).
1105CLG2: Copies des Lettres G2 (Feb. 1778 - Jul. 1779).
1108CLH: Copies des Lettres H (Jul. 1779 - Oct. 1780).
1109CLI: Copies des Lettres I (Oct. 1780 - Dec. 1781).
1110CLL: Copies des Lettres L (Aug. 1784 - Jun. 1787).
1112CLM: Copies des Lettres M (Nov. 1786 - Jan. 1790).
1116Dossier
1117Dossier
1131Dossier
1134Dossier
1135Dossier
1140Dossier
1143Dossier
1144Dossier
1145Dossier
1145Dossier Durand
1146Dossier
1149Dossier
1159Dossier
1160Dossier
1161Dossier
1165Dossier
1167Dossier
1168Dossier
1169Dossier
1171Dossier
1172Dossier
1175Dossier
1179Dossier
1186Dossier
1187Dossier
1191Dossier
1194Dossier
1195Dossier
1199Dossier
1202Dossier
1203Dossier
1205Dossier
1209Dossier
1215Dossier
1219Dossier
1220STN, Lettres à ses correspondants en voyage 2 Jan 1771 - 2 May 1784.
1221Dossier
1222Dossier
1223Dossier
1225Dossier
1229Dossier
1231Catalogues de la STN, 1781.