Family expences

Name:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Date:

1783

Description:

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.

Language:

French

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Account books; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

59 leaves : paper; 314 x 195 mm bound to 319 x 208 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 641

Collection:

Penn in the Age of Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)