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

Title

Family expences

Authors

• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Call number

Ms. Codex 641
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486680
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486680

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1783-1784

Place

Passy

Summary

Account book for expenses for Benjamin Franklin's household at Passy, France from January 1783 through 16 March 1784. Comprises detailed accounts of purchases, mostly for food; with receipts for funds from Franklin for these expenses, signed Finck.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper cover.
   

Extent

59 leaves : 314 x 195 mm. bound to 319 x 208 mm

Foliation

Paper, 59; [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Splitting at upper cover, first quire partly detached.

Script

Written in a cursive script by two hands, with one listing purchases, the second signed receipts.

Subjects topical

• Home economics--Accounting

Genres

• Codices
• Account books
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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