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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1617-01-29

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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc - Robert Bruce Cotton - 1617-01-29
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  15253
InstitutionName of Institution. London, British Library
InventoryInventory number. Cotton MS Julius C III, f.288
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 . January 29, 1617
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Burnett 2020b, p. 1531
KeywordNumismatic Keywords 
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence French
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia 
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'We first hear about the ‘trentaine de medai[lles] antiques Romaines de touts mettaulx, concernant vos antiquites Britanniques’ in a letter from Peiresc to Cotton written in January 1617, where he says that he had gathered them in Provence.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 153)

References

  1. ^  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.