Measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities

Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.

A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.

A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.

The Order of Monks of the 'Charité-Dieu and Notre-Dame settling their accounts. Coloured chromolithograph.

Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.

A Jain accountant with his wife. Gouache drawing.

A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.

Three accounts ledgers and one 'want book' kept by an unidentified grocer and druggist living in the Folkestone area

Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

The items in this collection can broadly be categorised as follows: day-books and a diary recording visits to patients and medicines prescribed; patient accounts ledgers; apprenticeship indentures of William Ackland; recipe books and medical notebooks; casebook, medical notes and correspondence of Charles Kingsley Ackland; memoirs, correspondence, photographs, diplomas and miscellaneous papers of the Ackland family.

Ackland and Littlewood families

117 pages, [127?] leaves : folded tables, diagrams ; (4to)

The pathway to knowledge, conteyning certaine briefe tables of English waights and measures. ... How to oast accompt with counters, and with pen, both in whole, and broken numbers. With the rules of cossicke, surd, binomicall, & residuall numbers, and the rule of equation, or of algebere ... Whereunto is annexed a most excellent Inuention of Julius Caesar Patauinus, for the buying and selling of all kinds of marchandise. And lastly the order of keeping of a merchants book, after the Italian manner, by debitor and creditor ... All more briefly done, than any heretofore hath been set foorth ... / Written in Dutch and now translated into English, by W.P[hillip].

1 volume<br/>(12 ff. + 4 leaves folio. 32 ? 20 cm.). Written on the rectos only.

Sistema di Scrittura

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon

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Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Ackland and Littlewood families

Sistema di Scrittura

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon

Accounting

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Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

Ackland and Littlewood families

Sistema di Scrittura

Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon

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