John Reynolds mathematics copy book and account book : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, John, active 19th century, compiler.

Contributor:

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--England.

Agriculture.

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Building--Study and teaching.

Building.

Libraries rules and regulations--Great Britain.

Libraries rules and regulations.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams.

Account books.

Drawings.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Offered for sale by Ken Spelman Rare Books and Manuscripts (York, England), catalogue 106 (January 2020), no. 11.

Sold by Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers (London), 2022.

Physical Description:

1 volume (314 pages) : illustrations ; 21 x 17 cm

Production:

Bassingham, England, 1808-1885.

Other Title:

Title page: His accoumpting book

Biography/History:

John Reynolds appears to have been a farmer in Bassingham in Lincolnshire, England in the first half of the 19th century.

Summary:

Approximately one half of the volume contains mathematical exercises copied from unidentified editions of Francis Walkingame's The tutor's assistant (p. 3-127) and Charles Hutton's The compendious measurer (p. 128-183). These exercises follow basic mathematical rules and then appear to be applied to the building trade, including calculations for bricklayers, joiners, tilers, plasterers, painters, pavers, plumbers, etc. There are approximately 27 illustrations in ink of structures (houses, barns, stable yards) (pp. 213-238) that accompany questions relating to scale and compass of brickwork, stonework, and wall work from an unidentified source. In 1816, Reynolds used the volume to record the Bassingham Sunday School Library rules (pp. 242-245). The remainder of the volume (p. 246-314) contains Reynolds’s farming accounts, dating from 1816 to 1820, in which he records his purchases and sales. He appears to have primarily sold barley, beans, oats, straw, turnips, and wheat, as well as a variety of animals including “beasts,” cows, lambs, and pigs. Reynolds appears to have managed the “Highway Accounts” and to have been involved with his church. A single entry dating from 1885 (p. 245) provides a recipe intended for calves or ewes lambing. The volume is bound in full parchment with John Reynolds written in ink on the front cover. A fuller title, “John Reynolds, his Accoumpting Book, 1802,” is written in ink with decorative elements on the first page. The second half of the volume starts upside down from the back cover, with pages ripped out after p. 240 and after p. 310.

Contents:

p.3-127: Selections from The tutor's assistant / Francis Walkingame

p.128-183: Selections from The compendious measurer / Charles Hutton

p. 184-238: Selections from unidentified mathematics exercises

p. 239-241: Notes and accounts

p. 242-245: Bassingham Sunday School library rules

p.246-314: Accounts.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Cited as:

John Reynolds mathematics copy book and account book (Ms. Codex 2105). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783. Tutor's assistant.

Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823. Compendious measurer.

OCLC:

1373363490