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Concept

Accounting

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Grocer/Druggist's Ledgers and 'Wants Book'

    | Date: 1839-c.1867 | Reference: MSS.7968-7971
    • Archives and manuscripts

    General Practice: Macclesfield, Cheshire

    | Date: August 1835-July 1837 | Reference: MS.5507
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Ackland and Littlewood families

    Ackland, William (c.1791-1867) | Date: 1809-1970 | Reference: MSS.5410-5419 and 7205-7216
    • Books

    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].

    Petri, Nicolaus, -1602. | Date: 1596
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Mules and Burnard, general practitioners, Ilminster, Somerset

    Mules, Charles Hawkes | Date: 1834-1854 | Reference: MS.5653
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