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The ground of arts, : teaching the perfect worke and practise of arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact forme then in former time hath beene set forth:

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1636.
Call number: 21774
Creator: Recorde, Robert (1510?-1558)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Clarence Saunders Brigham, March 1921. Contemporary ms. annotations and calculations. Inscription on leaf B5v: Francis Patient his Reathmatick if I him lose and you him find at Westbury I doth dwell and you shall bee well paid for your pains Anno Domini August the 18th 1686. Inscription on page 566: Thomas Patients booke 1699. Inscription on back flyleaf: Anno Dominis 1648 paid to Mr Lavington the 13th of June for the led vpon theire a countes. Item for the coppi hold at bencraft hill it is 3s 4d yearely rent xjd contribution. Signatures of "Francis Pashent", along with other signtures, on back flyleaf.

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