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 Info | 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. |
| Description | [172], 53, [1] p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240931297 |
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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. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Revised by Mellis from an original work by Hugh Oldcastle, whose name appears on A3r. |
| General note | Based on: Pacioli, Luca. Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalitĂ . |
| General note | The "i" and "t" in "creditor" on the title page are turned. |
| General note | Bookseller's name and address from colophon. |
| General note | Signatures: A-R Sâ´. |
| 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 note | With a slip-cancel on G2r referring to the subsequent sections. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 18794. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic 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. |
| Stock number | CL0036000010 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |