Title | Description |
Luca Pacioli. Summa de arithmetica
| 1494 work on mathematics. The Particularis de computis et scripturis section contains the first description of double-entry bookkeeping in a printed book. |
Luca Pacioli. Divina proportione
| 1509 work on geometry and the 'divine proportion', illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, Pacioli's friend and collaborator. |
James Peele. The maner and fourme how to kepe a perfecte reconying
| Published in 1553, Jame’s Peele’s The maner and fourme how to kepe a perfecte reconying, is the first extant original work on accounting in English |
Jan Ympyn Christoffels. Nieuwe instructie
| 1543 influential Dutch work on bookkeeping, translated into French and English soon after publication. |