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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1608-05-03

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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Aix-en-Provence

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1608-05-03
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  15233
InstitutionName of Institution. Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number. MS Smith 74 ff.95-6
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 . May 3, 1608
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Aix-en-Provence 43° 31' 47.43" N, 5° 26' 50.91" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. William Camden, Lelio Pasqualini
LiteratureReference to literature. Camden 15861, Burnett 2020b, pp. 130 n. 79, 151, 190-12
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Hadrian , Silver , Wax Cast , Septimius Severus , Caracalla , Geta , Offa , Engraved Plates , Book Production
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence Latin
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'de nova doctissimi Camdeni Britannia, quid ad ipsum scribam, videre poteris. Sculptorem certe minus legitime, quam par fuisset, antiquos nummos expressisse vehementer doleo, vereorque ne id, praesertim apud Italos, eruditissimarum eius observationum fidem minuat. Sed et plerosque alios nummos notatu dignissimos, quos apud te vidi, omissos fuisse norim
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Simulque ectypos duos Roma ad me missos a R.D. Laelio Pasqualino, inter rei antiquariae in Italia peritos facile Principe, qui mihi prototypos ipsos argenteos libenter obtulit, si eos desiderem: quod sane, cum tibi rem gratam me facturum putem, non recusabo. Quamvis autem/enim Offa Merciorum regis plerosque nummos apud te viderim, in nullo tamen hanc inscriptiones ordinem observavi: OFfa Rex Ɏ encircum. Deinde nullum prorsus BEORHTRICI REGIS nummum invenio in indicibus illis, quos ex ditissimo thesauro tuo deprompsi, ideoque ecmagmata illa interim dum prototypos expectamus, non injucunda tibi fore spero. enixeque scjo, ut haec qualiacunque sint aequi bonique consulas, atque affectus et observantiae meae potius, quam ipsorum rationem habeas.'

['You will be able to see what I wrote to Camden, concerning his new Britannia. I really regret that the engraver has cut the ancient coins much less correctly that would have been right, and I am afraid that it will reduce confidence in his very scholarly observations, especially among the Italians. And I also know that many other coins, which I saw with you and which are very worthy of being noted, have been left out
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And at the same time [I send] those two casts, sent to me from Rome by the Rev. Dr. Laelio Pasqualini, easily the Prince among experts in antiquity in Italy, who freely offered me the actual silver originals, if I wanted them: and obviously I will not refuse them, since I think I will make the matter pleasing to you. For, although I saw many coins of Offa King of the Mercians in your possession, on none of them did I observe this form of inscription: Offa Rex around Ɏ. Next, I find no coin precisely of King Beorhtric in those lists which I drew up from your very rich collection, and so meanwhile, while we await the originals, I hope the casts will not be displeasing to you. And I very certainly know that whatever they may be, you will take them in good part, and that you will take my affection and regard more into account than the things themselves.'] (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Smith 74 ff.95-6; extract and translation from Burnett 2020b, p. 130 n. 79, p. 175)

Abstract from EMLO: Repeated letters and coins despatched from various places have failed to elicit a response from C., but now he is sending by the hand of his brother a letter along with coins which he describes and explains e.g. a wax coin of Hadrian with an inscription, "Exerc. Britannia" and three silver coins of Severus, Bassianus and Gita. He will be glad too to send what he has obtained from Lelius Pasqualini, foremost antiquarian in Italy. Although he has seen several coins of Offa he could find no inscription on them. He fears Camden's comments on coins in his Brittannia are sure to diminish confidence in him among Italians. If C. wishes he will send him his seal of Edward the Confessor.

References

  1. ^  Camden, William (1586) Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, London.
  2. ^  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.