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A briefe instruction and maner hovv to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor : & as well for proper accompts partible, &c. By the three bookes named the memoriall iournall & leager, and of other necessaries appertaining to a good and diligent marchant. The which of all other reckoninges is most lawdable: for this treatise well and sufficiently knowen, all other wayes and maners may be the easier & sooner discerned, learned and knowen. Newely augmented and set forth by Iohn Mellis scholemaister. 1588.
LIBRA STC 18794
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 328:2.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Oldcastle, Hugh.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 328:2.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookkeeping--Early works to 1800.
- Bookkeeping.
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Physical Description:
- 172 unnumbered pages, 53 pages, 1 unnumbered page
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Briefe instruction and maner how to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor
- Short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers.
- Briefe instruction and maner how to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor.
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the white Beare, nigh Baynards Castle [for Hugh Singleton, and are to be solde at his shoppe at the north dore in Christes Hospital, next vnto the cloyster, going into Smithfield], 1588.
- Notes:
- Revised by Mellis from an original work by Hugh Oldcastle, whose name appears on A3r.
- Based on: Pacioli, Luca. Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità.
- The "i" and "t" in "creditor" on the title page are turned.
- Bookseller's name and address from colophon.
- Signatures: A-R S4.
- "A short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers" by John Mellis has separate dated title page and foliation; register is continuous.
- With a slip-cancel on G2r referring to the subsequent sections.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1947. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 328:2). s1947 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 18794.
- OCLC:
- 61371065
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