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

Author/creator Oldcastle, Hugh
Other author Pacioli, Luca, d. ca. 1514.
Other author Mellis, John, fl. 1588.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoImprinted 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.
Description[172], 53, [1] p.
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Variant title Briefe instruction and maner how to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor
Variant title Short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers.
Variant title Briefe instruction and maner how to keepe bookes of accompts after the order of debitor and creditor.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteRevised by Mellis from an original work by Hugh Oldcastle, whose name appears on A3r.
General noteBased on: Pacioli, Luca. Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalitĂ .
General noteThe "i" and "t" in "creditor" on the title page are turned.
General noteBookseller's name and address from colophon.
General noteSignatures: A-R S⁴.
General note"A short and plaine treatise of arithmeticke in whole numbers" by John Mellis has separate dated title page and foliation; register is continuous.
General noteWith a slip-cancel on G2r referring to the subsequent sections.
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References STC (2nd ed.) 18794.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 328:2)
Other title Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità.
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