John Purnell - Hans Sloane - 1735-05-02
John Purnell, London
John Purnell - Hans Sloane - 1735-05-02
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 16044 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | London, British Library |
| InventoryInventory number. | Sloane MS 4054, ff.82-5 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | John Purnell |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Hans Sloane |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | May 2, 1735 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | London 51° 30' 26.80" N, 0° 7' 39.96" W |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Edmund Chishull, Antonio Picenini |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Burnett 2020b, p. 625Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Aleppo , Collection Sale , Antioch , Catalogue |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'...according to my promise yesterday I send you a List of my Medalls as I took them Some Time agoe, in the Same Bags & Papers, as you saw Them, & as I received Them from the Revd Doctr Chishull Deceased & His Executr Mr Dunster.'
The list is attached, entitled:
'London 2 May 1735. A Particular Account of Some part of my Medalls, as sorted & Numbred, by the Revd Doctr Chishull & Doctr Picinini Deceased, as I brought Them from Smyrna. The Rest which I collected at Aleppo, & Antioch, are not sorted but Remain in severall loose Papers as noted In The following Catalogue.' (London, British Library, Sloane MS 4054, ff.82-5)
The list gives a summary list of coins which were in four bags. The contents of the two bags of ‘Orange Color Buckram’ look like the coins collected in Aleppo and Antioch, and of the other two of ‘Canvas’ the coins from Asia Minor. The list of the first bag has 72 items individually noted, identified briefly by emperor or sometimes by city; and gives some totals for groups of coins each contained ‘in another paper not sorted’, before giving the bag’s total: ‘the foregoing Medalls being In Number 219:220 in The Orange Color Buckram Bag No 1’. The second bag (also ‘of orange buckram’) has a total given of 441, which is made up of four groups ‘in a paper not sorted’, inlcuding the enigmatic ‘245 Do Loose in This Bag, being Ordinary Modern Greek Medalls, of small Valew or Estmation.’ The third (canvas) bag itemises 67 pieces, and the fourth has a total of 347 items, including 89 ‘not sorted’ and includes the ‘Petrified Mushroom very perfect & intire’, before making a list of now empty papers from which the coins must have ‘slipped out’. So in all we have about 660 coins probably from Aleppo and Antioch, and a further 414 probably from Chishull’s Smyrna collection. (Burnett 2020b, p. 625)
