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[mailto:kristina.richardson@QC.CUNY.EDU] Sent: Freitag, 6. Mai 2011 14:39 Dear list members: I am writing on behalf of my colleague Dr. Jens Ulff-Moller, a historian of arithmetic in early modern Europe. He is interested in medieval Islamicate accounting methods, particularly in whether there is evidence of double-entry bookkeeping. He mentioned to me that in a dictionary of Italian terms relating to commerce, taxation, weights and measures, several words have Arabic or Persian or Turkish origins. "Diwan" to "dogana", meaning customs, is one such example. He would also like to find out more about the ways in which commercial relations influenced commercial techniques, accounting and arithmetic that came up in Italy, eventually finding their way into the rest of western Europe. Does anyone know relevant literature? I think the standard works by J.L. Berggren have not yielded answers to his questions. Thank you in advance, Kristina Richardson Assistant Professor of History Queens College, The City University of New York http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~krichardson
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