Account book

Description

Title: Account book
Creator: Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
Published / Created: 1576-1579/80.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fether, Robert Merkyn, and Henry Corye
Description: In English.
Watermarks: unidentified pot.
Script: Written by several individuals in informal cursive scripts.
Most folios are wrinkled, torn; some have been mended.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Half green goatskin with green cloth sides, gold- and blind-tooled. Leaves of a didactic theological text (Germany, ca. 1250) bound at beginning and end; probably a bifolium. Parchment; 291 x 196 (220 x 155) mm. Written above top line in a small gothic bookhand. Initials in red or green with penwork designs of the other color. Stained, but with little loss of text.
Provenance: Presented to Yale in 1955 by Mrs. Leonard Bacon.
Extent: ff. vi + i + 21 + i + x : ca. 305 x 205 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Account books
Manuscripts, Renaissance England 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Great Britain
Subject (Name): Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Economic conditions
Subjects: Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 16th century
England > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Nathaniel Bacon, Account Book. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.