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A briefe instruction and maner how 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 memorial journal & 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 John Mellis scholemaister. 1588
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- Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proporzioni e proporzionalità
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- Imprinted at London : By John 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 unto the cloyster, going into Smithfield], 1588
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- [172], 53, [1] p
- 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 proporzionalità.
- 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.
- STC (2nd ed.) 18794.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.