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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 641
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Home economics--Accounting.
- Home economics.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- account books
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Physical Description:
- 59 leaves : paper ; 314 x 195 mm bound to 319 x 208 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Passy], 1783-1784.
- Language Note:
- French.
- Summary:
- Account book for expenses for Benjamin Franklin's household at Passy, France from January 1783 through 16 March 1784. Comprises detailed accounts of purchases, mostly for food; with receipts for funds from Franklin for these expenses, signed Finck.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from upper cover.
- Foliation: Paper, 59; [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by two hands, with one listing purchases, the second signed receipts.
- Binding: Contemporary parchment. Splitting at upper cover, first quire partly detached.
- Origin: Written in Passy, France, January 1783 through 16 March 1784. "Recu de M. Franklin la somme ... a Passy le 7 Fev. 1783. finck" (f. 3r).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 641
- OCLC:
- 155983712
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