Content: "Die maniere om te leeren cijfferen, ende rekenen metter pennen, nae die gherechte conste algorismi": p. [41-56]. "Die eualuatie van den gouden penningen op een nie we des eersten dach meerte int iaer 1526": p. [57-62]. "Item hierna volcht die maniere om te weghen metten penninckghewichte": p. [62-64].
Content: Binding: Contemporary dark brown calf with overlapping flap on back board, blind-stamped, by Willem de Backere (cf. Nijhoff & Kronenberg). Each board stamped with a tripartite panel (birds, animals, foliage, etc.; includes binder's name in form Wilhelm[us] Bac ...). Binding incorporates ms. fragments on vellum. Two brass clasps on flap are secured to catches on front board with a brass stylus. Rebacked; new hinge to flap. In modern brown calf solander case.
Content: Pages [17-40] are blank leaves of coated parchment that may be written on with a stylus.
Content: Provenance: George Dunn (bookplate); W.H. Jervis Wegg; J.R. Abbey (leather book label). Cf. Sotheby sale cats., Nov. 23, 1917, lot 1988 (Dunn), Nov. 6, 1967, lot 2311 (Abbey).
Content: Signatures: [1-2]⁸ [3]⁴ (without the parchment section, which consists of 6 bifolia bound in singly).
Content: Title page and calendar for 1527-1550 (p. [2-16]) printed in red and black.
x Calengier: item men mach hier in scriuen met priemen ghemaect van gout, of van siluer, of van ten, of van koeper, of van laettoen, ende met eene[n] natten vingher machment wt doen ..