Details

Subjects:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Home economics -- Accounting.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Account books.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

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.
Foliation: Paper, 59; [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by two hands, with one listing purchases, the second signed receipts.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Splitting at upper cover, first quire partly detached.
Origin: Written in Passy, France, January 1783 through 16 March 1784. "Recu de M. Franklin la somme ... a Passy le 7 Fev. 1783. finck" (f. 3r).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 641

Contributor:

Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

155983712