Dictionary of source types

The Libro de Cuenta y Razón is an account book mandatory since the promulgation of the Mercantile Code of 1829 and used until the end of the sailing shipping. In it, the successive crew agreements of a ship were written down by the shipmaster. In the following pages the master detailed the entries of the payments made to each man in the different ports in detail (advances before embarkment and successive payments) , and the final settlement upon landing or end the trip. This is a scarce document, scarcely preserved, but very interesting because of the information that provides of the inside of crews.