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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oldcastle, Hugh
Other Authors: Pacioli, Luca, d. ca. 1514, Mellis, John, fl. 1588
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description: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 proporzionalitĂ .
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([172], 53, [1] pages)