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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 6 Jan 2014 14:27:26
Message: <52cb039e$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/01/2014 10:02 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 05/01/2014 22:27, Doctor John nous fit lire :
>> TRANSACTION1 is the initial payment to the bank. TRANSACTION2 is a later
>> payment by a bank* to an actor; it therefore requires a different date
>> (usually but not always specified) as well as a way of specifying where
>> it will be enacted.
>
> So, what about calling T1 as Credit/Credence, and T2 as Debit/Restitution.

I was thinking more about collapsing them both into a single table...

If you're just trying to do double-entry accounting, there's no especial 
reason why you need one table for one half of the entry, and another 
table for the other half. (Then again, I do not have much of an 
understanding of the problem domain behind this design, so...)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 6 Jan 2014 14:55:01
Message: <web.52cb0934bdd2b0804bff9a870@news.povray.org>
Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 05/01/14 23:32, Stephen wrote:
> > On 05/01/2014 9:18 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> >> Ah, but when I said 'Would you like a whisky?' you queried the
> >> distillery, the year, the barrels it was aged in,
> >
> > No. It was you that did that. I drink Grouse. </Hint>
> >
>
> ... which will save me a heap of cash the next time we meet :-)
> Incidentally, I rescued a book from our local library as it was closing
> down (they'd built a new one just down the road) called 'When The Lights
> Went Out - Britain In The 70s'. A bit lefty for my taste but interesting
> just the same. Could I give it to you?
>

Yes, of course. A paper book no less, how quaint. :-)

> >> BTW What's SAP ;-)
> >>
> >
> > A distant memory. They say it rises in the spring. ;-)
> >
>
> So, when are you next in London and free for a night of debauchery? (One
> proviso: Wednesdays are out. The Kat has lectures, seminars etc then, so
> yours truly has to look after the Feegle)
>

I am not sure, I wouldn't mind a night of debauchery, if. I can remember what
that is. :O

> John (wondering why he's still awake at this hour -see timestamp)

Old age, mate. :-P

> --
> Protect the Earth
> It was not given to you by your parents
> You hold it in trust for your children


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 7 Jan 2014 08:13:12
Message: <52cbfd68$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/01/14 19:51, Stephen wrote:
> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
> Yes, of course. A paper book no less, how quaint. :-)
> 

I must remember to put it in a prominent position so I don't leave it
behind.

> 
> I am not sure, I wouldn't mind a night of debauchery, if. I can remember what
> that is. :O
> 

It'll come back to you. It's like riding a bike.

>> John (wondering why he's still awake at this hour -see timestamp)
> 
> Old age, mate. :-P
> 

You and me both ;-)

John
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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 7 Jan 2014 08:28:41
Message: <52cc0109$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/01/14 19:27, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 05/01/2014 10:02 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> Le 05/01/2014 22:27, Doctor John nous fit lire :
>>> TRANSACTION1 is the initial payment to the bank. TRANSACTION2 is a later
>>> payment by a bank* to an actor; it therefore requires a different date
>>> (usually but not always specified) as well as a way of specifying where
>>> it will be enacted.
>>
>> So, what about calling T1 as Credit/Credence, and T2 as
>> Debit/Restitution.

They've now been renamed to TRANSACTION and LIABILITY

> If you're just trying to do double-entry accounting, there's no especial
> reason why you need one table for one half of the entry, and another
> table for the other half. (Then again, I do not have much of an
> understanding of the problem domain behind this design, so...)

The last thing the team want to do is double-entry book-keeping :-)
The main aims of the project are:
1. How did the banks make their money? They couldn't charge interest
(the Church forbade the practice) and exchange rates seem to have been
the same between two currencies whichever direction the transaction
went. So were they using deposited money to trade in goods such as wool
and spices?
2. The Church had just started to use the banks to transfer money to and
from the Vatican. Did this sudden influx of substantial amounts of cash
give rise to an increase in trading all over Europe and thus provoke the
mini-Renaissance that only came to an end with the onset of the Black Death?

John
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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 7 Jan 2014 11:43:44
Message: <52cc2ec0$1@news.povray.org>
Additional. I have just received a phone call informing me that the team
has unearthed 200 pages of of Vatican documents itemising payments into
and out of the Curial treasure chests. They cover the period in question
but are written by churchmen rather than financiers so they don't always
include some of the essential (to a financier) information. I'm now
waiting for a few pages of translated items (I don't speak or read
Medieval Latin) and then it's back to the drawing board. :-(

John
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You hold it in trust for your children


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 7 Jan 2014 14:41:00
Message: <52cc584c@news.povray.org>
Am 07.01.2014 17:43, schrieb Doctor John:
> Additional. I have just received a phone call informing me that the team
> has unearthed 200 pages of of Vatican documents itemising payments into
> and out of the Curial treasure chests. They cover the period in question
> but are written by churchmen rather than financiers so they don't always
> include some of the essential (to a financier) information. I'm now
> waiting for a few pages of translated items (I don't speak or read
> Medieval Latin) and then it's back to the drawing board. :-(

All this reminds me of a project my father has been working on for the 
last few years: Transcribing records from a monastery about their 
properties, tenants, cottagers and what-have-you-not (plenty of who 
moved out of or into which piece of land, what they had to pay for 
moving in, what they had to pay to stay, what their compensation was 
when moving out, whom they married, whom they gave birth to - all sorts 
of stuff like that).

Fortunately for him, he didn't aim for a database; transcribing the old 
handwritings and adding some annotations of his own was all he was 
aiming for.

He is now arranging for the results to be published as a book.


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 8 Jan 2014 15:12:24
Message: <52cdb128$1@news.povray.org>
On 07/01/2014 19:40, clipka wrote:
>
> All this reminds me of a project my father has been working on for the
> last few years: Transcribing records from a monastery about their
> properties, tenants, cottagers and what-have-you-not (plenty of who
> moved out of or into which piece of land, what they had to pay for
> moving in, what they had to pay to stay, what their compensation was
> when moving out, whom they married, whom they gave birth to - all sorts
> of stuff like that).
>
> Fortunately for him, he didn't aim for a database; transcribing the old
> handwritings and adding some annotations of his own was all he was
> aiming for.
>
> He is now arranging for the results to be published as a book.
>

The Kat (Principal Investigator in this project) has expressed interest 
in getting a copy of your father's book, let me know when he publishes. 
The email you see for me is valid but put p.o-t in the subject line

John


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 8 Jan 2014 16:06:05
Message: <52cdbdbd$1@news.povray.org>
Am 08.01.2014 21:12, schrieb Doctor John:
> On 07/01/2014 19:40, clipka wrote:
>>
>> All this reminds me of a project my father has been working on for the
>> last few years: Transcribing records from a monastery about their
>> properties, tenants, cottagers and what-have-you-not (plenty of who
>> moved out of or into which piece of land, what they had to pay for
>> moving in, what they had to pay to stay, what their compensation was
>> when moving out, whom they married, whom they gave birth to - all sorts
>> of stuff like that).
>>
>> Fortunately for him, he didn't aim for a database; transcribing the old
>> handwritings and adding some annotations of his own was all he was
>> aiming for.
>>
>> He is now arranging for the results to be published as a book.
>>
>
> The Kat (Principal Investigator in this project) has expressed interest
> in getting a copy of your father's book, let me know when he publishes.
> The email you see for me is valid but put p.o-t in the subject line

Would she still be interested if she learned that the book will be about 
a German monastery... and written in German?


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 8 Jan 2014 16:13:53
Message: <52cdbf91$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/01/14 21:05, clipka wrote:
> 
> Would she still be interested if she learned that the book will be about
> a German monastery... and written in German?
> 
Absolutely. She speaks (nearly) fluent German and and anything about
Medieval Church institutions is her field.

John
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You hold it in trust for your children


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Where is Gail when you need her?
Date: 8 Jan 2014 17:31:29
Message: <52cdd1c1$1@news.povray.org>
Am 08.01.2014 22:13, schrieb Doctor John:
> On 08/01/14 21:05, clipka wrote:
>>
>> Would she still be interested if she learned that the book will be about
>> a German monastery... and written in German?
>>
> Absolutely. She speaks (nearly) fluent German and and anything about
> Medieval Church institutions is her field.

I'm not sure whether the records my father transcribed include stuff 
dating back to medieval times; at least his original interest was in the 
records from late 17th to very early 19th century. The monastery in 
question is the (then Cistercian) convent in Vinnenberg, Westphalia.

I'll keep you updated nonetheless.


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