The pathway to knowledge. : Conteyning certaine briefe tables of English waights, and measures, with the proportions, kindes, and numbers belonging properly vnto the same. How to cast 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 Iulius Caesar Patauinus, for the buying and selling of all kinde of marchandise. And lastly the order of keeping of a marchants booke, after the Italian manner, by debitor and creditor... Together with a table... Written in Dutch, and translated into English, by W.P.
Petri, Nicolaus,-1602.
Phillip, William,tr.
Caesar, Julius,of Padua.
Raw, William,active 1684,former owner.StEdNL ICAS.667(1)
Boyd, Philip,former owner.StEdNL ICAS.667(1)
Printed at London : [By Abel Jeffes and others] for William Barley, and are to be sould at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious street,,
1596..
A translation of: Petri, Nicolaus. Practique om te leeren reeckenen, cypheren ende boeckhouwen.
W.P. = William Phillip.
Printer's name from STC addendum.
The folded leaf is signed "C".
"Finis" on X4r.
Entered to T. Nelson 31 May 1592.
Bound with: The doctrine of the synod of Dort and Arles.
ESTC
STC (2nd ed.)
The front pastedown has the manuscript inscription in blue ink "Bookkeeping - The Pathway to Knowledge". The recto of the first front flyleaf has the manuscript inscription "In this booke are contained these subjects. Arethmatique - of weights and measures. / The pathway to knowledge. / Of buying and sellinge. / The ledger books / The Doctrine of the synod of Dort and Arles". Below this in a different hand "Will: Raw his book anno dom 1684". Below this in a different hand "Sunderland". On the recto of the second front flyleaf "P Boyd / Philip". On the verso of the third front flyleaf "The pathway to knowledge being the oldest book I have met with on arithmetic / book-keeping have sent it for thy amusement- Smiths / I have folded a leaf [a?] some curious questions". Other annotations occur throughout the volume.
Arithmetic
Algebra
Weights and measures
Bookkeeping