William Camden - Abraham Ortelius - 1577-8-4

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William Camden - Abraham Ortelius - 1577-8-4

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	390
InstitutionName of Institution.	New York, The Morgan Library and Museum
InventoryInventory number.	LHMS, Misc English
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Camden
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Abraham Ortelius
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	August 4, 1577 ^JL
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.	Westminster ^{51° 29' 50.35" N, 0° 8' 13.74" W}
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Marc Laurinus van Watervliet, William Cecil
LiteratureReference to literature.	Ortelius 15731, Hessels 1887, no. 71, p. 1682, Callataÿ 2017, p. 71, n° 73, Burnett 2020b, pp. 64, 97, 127-8, 1594
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Book
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	Latin
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ	http://www.numisbel.be/KBGN%20175 Callatay.pdf

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4 August 1577 (from Westminster): “Honoratissimus enim Dominus Burghleius, summus Angliae thesaurarius, quum ex libello tuo Deorum (quem D. Decanus illi donavit) te antiquis nummis oblectari perspexerat, ex animo optavit, ut, quae in eius museo sunt, antiqua numismata vidisses, et utinam vidisses. Latent enim apud illum plurima, et admodum rara antiquitatis monumenta, et sanè quaecunque in Britanniae sunt, antiquae memoriae, ille unus possidet omnia. Est enim vir ille, cum caeteris artibus, quae tantae personae dignae sunt, excultus singulis, tum post vestros nobils Laurinos venerandae antiquitatis perscrutator diligentissimus.” (New York, The Morgan Library, LHMS, Misc English; Hessels 1877, no. 71, p. 168).

['The most honourable Lord Burghley, High Treasurer of England, since he had seen from your little book on the Gods (which Dean [Goodman] gave him) that you delight in ancient coins, really wished that you had seen the ancient coins that are in his Museum, and if only you had seen them! For very many lie hidden with him, and furthermore rare monuments of Antiquity, and really everything which relates to ancient history in Britain, he alone possesses all of them.' (translation from Burnett 2020b, p. 64)]

References

^ Ortelius, Abraham (1573), Deorum dearumque capita ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosum effigiata et edita ex museo Abrahami Ortelii, Antwerp.
^ Hessels, J.H. (1887), Abrahami Ortelii (geographi Antverpiensis) et virorum eruditorum ad eundem et ad Jacobum Colium Ortelianum (Abraham Ortelii sororis filium) epistulae cum aliquot aliis epistulis et tractatibus quibusdam ab utroque collectis (1524-1628) ex autographis mandante ecclesia Londino-Batava, Cantabrigae. Reprint: Osnabrück, O. Zeller, 1969.
^ Callataÿ, Fr. de (2017), “Glory and misery of Belgian numismatics from the 16th to the 18th c. as seen through three milestones (Goltz 1563, Serrure 1847 and the Dekesels) and private correspondences”, in J. Moens (ed.), 175 years of Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium. Proceedings of the Colloquium ‘Belgian numismatics in perspective (Brussels, 21 May 2016’), Brussels, pp. 37-129.
^ 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.