De Engelse vertaling van «Les Practiques de Chiffre» van Franҫois Flory

Abstract

SUMMARY: John Weddington — or Waddington — is the author of an important manual of bookkeeping, A breffe instruction and manner, howe to kepe, marchantis bokes, of accomptes, which was printed at Antwerp in 1567. A schoolmaster of Lille, Francis Flory, published in the same town, in 1577, a manual of mercantile arithmetic, Les practiques de chiffre. The said Weddington made an accurate translation of this book in 1591, and had it printed in 1593 in London, under the title The practize of cifering. Rates of exchange are those quoted at Antwerp before the Spanish Fury of November 4 th., 1576. — The only known copy of this translation was secured by the Britisch Museum in 1963.