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Ralph Thoresby - Richard Richardson - 1709-02-23

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Ralph Thoresby - Richard Richardson - 1709-02-23
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  14594
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document. Ralph Thoresby
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Richard Richardson
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . February 23, 1709
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Leeds 53° 47' 50.71" N, 1° 32' 37.66" W
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. Andrew Fountaine, Ezechiel Spanheim, Thomas Herbert
LiteratureReference to literature. Spanheim 17061, Turner 1835, pp. 96-100, letter 392, Burnett 2020b, p. 1611, 8923
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Roman , Numismatic Literature
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'... the Lord High Admirall [= the Earl of Pembroke], who has made noble additions to his invaluable museum, and particularly a Roman Bos of five pounds weight. There is an account of it in the new edition of Baron Spanhemius’ Numismata, which the Prussian Ambassador sent per Sir Andrew Fountain, (who, by the way, showed me his own museum, which I take to be the best in England for our own country-moneys, &c.) to desire the catalogue of my coins, which he seem’d surprised with, and took excerpta.'

(Turner 1835, pp. 96-100, letter 39; Burnett 2020b, p. 1611)

References

  1. ^  Spanheim, Ezechiel (1706), Disputationes de usu et præstantia numismatum antiquorum, I, 3rd ed., R. Smith, London.
  2. ^  Turner, D. (ed.)(1835) Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, Yarmouth.
  3. ^  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.