Greaves, John - Unpublished preface to Greaves 1647

John Greaves

Greaves, John - Unpublished preface to Greaves 1647

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	15217
TitleTitel of the book.	Unpublished preface to Greaves 1647
InstitutionName of Institution.	Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number.	Add MS C 299, f.144 (item 8)
AuthorAuthor of the document.	John Greaves
Publication dateDate when the publication was issued: day - month - year .
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, John Caius, Johan Rode, Jean-Jacques Bouchard
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Roman , Denarius , Manuscripts
LiteratureReference to literature.	Greaves 16471, Madan 1895-1953, vol. 5, no. 276132, Burnett 2020b, pp. 482, 833
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

Export: CSV

RDF

Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

Unused and unpublished preface for J. Greaves, Discourse of the Roman Foot and Denarius (London 1647): 'And here I may not pretermit without honourable mention the endeavours of two excellent men. The one an English man & y^e worthy founder of Caius College, in Cambridge, w^ch beares his name, who in his preface as I remember, before Celsus makes mention of a tract finished by him in Italy De vera denarij ratione. What has become of this tract I could never learne, his Celsus w^th many variae lectiones out of y^e best MSS is in y^e hands of Rhodius a Dane, who promised me att Padua to publish it, & I hope will performe it. The other is Monsieur Peiresc, once a Gentleman of honourable place at Aix in France, where for his industrie & exactnesse in all parts of Antiquity, especially in this, may deserve the Elogy which Plinie gives to Hipparchus, that he was In omni diligentia mirus. And surely had he lived to have finished what in his letters, which I have seene in french, in y^e hands of Monsieur Buchard a learned man, he intended it would have been in vaine for any man to have written after him.' (Bodleian Library, Add MS C 299, f.144; Burnett 2020b, pp. 482, 83)

References

^ Greaves, John (1647) A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced, London.
^ Madan, F. (1895-1953) A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 7 vols., Oxford, Clarendon Press.
^ Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.