Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1606-08-05

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Brussels

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1606-08-05

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	15272
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, British Library
InventoryInventory number.	Lansdowne MS 89/85, f.166
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Robert Bruce Cotton
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	August 5, 1606
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Brussels ^{50° 51' 18.01" N, 4° 21' 4.44" E}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Francis Tate, William Camden, John Harrison
LiteratureReference to literature.	Burnett 2020b, p. 1721
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Saxon
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	Latin
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'Caeterum de numulo illo aureo AVDVLFI REGIS quam tibi dono dedi, D. Hopperium doctissimum virum, qui Frisiae historiam amplissimam nondum editam conscripsit, consului. Hocq’ didici, nullo modo pertinere posse ad Frisiae Reges: tum quod nullus AVDVLFVS in eorum historiis legatur: tum etiam quod ultimus tantum rex ex ea familia Christianus fuerit paulo antequam Carolino Imperio subijecerentur. At numus non solum a Christiano rege, qui crucem adhibuit, cusus est, sed etiam majorem multo antiquitatem redolet quam ferre possint Carolina tempora.
Ideoq’ necesse est ab ALDVLFO EASTANGLORVM REGE (qui regnum adeptus est χρι circiter 664^to) quodam in Britanniae loco percussum esse, cui Frisiae nomen inditum fuisset. neque id omnino absurdum videri debet, cum Saxones: [hole in paper]mnes FRESONES passim et promiscue a Beda et ab alijs nominentur.
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Clarissimum Dmn Camden, nostr' Tatum, Harissonium, et Poerum saluere iubeas, summopere cupio.'
(BL, Lansdowne MS 89/85, f.166; Burnett 2020b, pp. 172, 250)

['Again on the little gold coin of KING AUDULF which I gave you. I consulted Mr Hopper, a very learned man, who has written a very full history of Frisia, which has not yet been published. And I learnt this, that it can in no way relate to the kings of Frisia: no ADULF is named in their histories; and because the last king of that family was a Christian a little before they became subject to the Carolingian Empire. And the coin was not only struck by a Christian king, who displayed a cross, but also it has a much older look than the Carolingian period.
So it is necessary to think that it was struck by ALDVLF KING OF THE EAST ANGLES (who acquired the kingdom in about AD 664) in some place in Britain which had the name of Frisia. And that should not seem to be completely absurd, because the Saxons were all often called FRESONES and frequently so by Bede and others.' (translation from Burnett 2020b, p. 172)]

References

^ 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.