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AU - Oldcastle, Hugh
AU - Pacioli, Luca
AU - Mellis, John
AU - Oldcastle, Hugh
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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
PB - 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]
KW - Bookkeeping Early works to 1800
KW - Arithmetic Early works to 1900
PY - 1588
N2 - Revised by Mellis from an original work by Hugh Oldcastle, whose name appears on A3r
N2 - "A short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers" by John Mellis has separate dated title page and foliation; register is continuous
N2 - With a slip-cancel on G2r referring to the subsequent sections
N2 - Based on: Pacioli, Luca. Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità
N2 - The "i" and "t" in "creditor" on the title page are turned
N2 - STC (2nd ed.), 18794
N2 - Bookseller's name and address from colophon
N2 - Signatures: A-R S⁴
N2 - Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
BT - Early English Books Online / EEBO
CY - Imprinted at London
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -