Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Household expense records.

Authors

• Doughty, Anne, active 18th century

Other related names

• Fiske, R. C, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 2025
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9973233783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126242945
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bg2hh32

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1767-1772, 1776-1787, 1794

Place

England

Summary

Expenses for food and drink; household items such as soap, candles, and charcoal; household equipment such as dishes, decanters, pudding pans, and a carpet broom; services such as washing and transportation; and wages for servants. These are recorded at the item level chronologically from 1767 to 1772 and again in 1776 (f. 2v-64r). Starting in 1777, expenses are recorded at the level of bills paid to vendors, grouped by category, with sections, often starting on new pages, for butter, eggs, fish, poultry, charwomen, house, rabbits, lemons, baker, fishmonger, greengrocer, oil man, tallow chandler, washing, brewer, milk and cream, coal merchant, confectioner, and servants' journey (f. 64v-134r). The last pages of the volume are used for records of wages and include repeated signatures by women servants to acknowledge receipt of wages.between 1776 and 1785 (f. 134v-140r), with one receipt from 1794 noted on the last page (f. 140r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

140 leaves : 200 x 156 mm bound to 210 x 170 mm

Collation

Paper, 140 leaves; 1¹⁰ (leaf 1 front pastedown) 2-3¹² 4¹⁰ 5-9¹² 10¹⁴⁺¹ (leaf 9 is singleton) 11¹² 12¹²⁻1 (leaf 11 end pastedown, missing leaf 12); modern foliation in pencil, [1-140], upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) vellum; blind-tooled borders on covers.

Layout

Ruled in 5 columns in faint red ink, one narrow column for dates on the left, a wide center column for notes, and three narrow columns on the right for amounts in pounds, shillings, and pence; quarto format.

Script

Written in cursive script in the hand of Anne Doughty.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by R. C. Fiske, Morningthorpe (Norfolk; bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Norwich, England), 2016.
   

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Account books
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Accounts
• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• England
• Financial records

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — [Household expense records]