William Nicolson - Edward Lhuyd - 1695-02-16
William Nicolson
William Nicolson - Edward Lhuyd - 1695-02-16
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 14546 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| InventoryInventory number. | MS. Ashmole 1816, ff.476–477 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | William Nicolson |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Edward Lhuyd |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | February 16, 1695 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Edmund Gibson, William Camden |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Camden 1695Camden 1695, Burnett 2020b, p. 1553Burnett 2020b |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Inscriptions , British Coins , Cassivellaunus , Cunobelin , Mandubratius , Adminius |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | English |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ | https://tinyurl.com/y9za6fr2 |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'I resolv’d to have given you my thanks for your Last by the Carrier; who is now gone, & will be at Oxford before I have gotten Leisure (or Inclination, for the cold weather had made me very Lazy) to sett pen to paper. Mr Gibson tells me that Camden is now finish’d. I long to see it: chiefly upon the Score of the great Improvements you have made in your own Countrey. I confess I am not yet wholly reconciled to your opinion of the Coins (with Inscriptions in Latin Characters) being truly Brittish. How came either Cassibelane or Cunobeline so early acquainted with the Roman Letters. Besides; The Inscriptions are in Conformity to the Names given them by Julius Caesar and Tacitus, who certainly blunder’d in the true Spelling. I should rather expect to hear of Mandubratius’s Coin thus inscrib’d then Cassivellaun’s. And why not Kymbeline and Kaswalhawn, according to your true Brittish Orthography, rather than Cunobeline and Cassibelane? Why Cunobeline’s in Latin Letters and his Son Adminius’s in Greek? To be free with you – I think most of the Guesses we have had about these Coins are much of the same complexion with the grave Remark of Sr John Pettus; who (in the Glossary to his Fleta minor) tells us that the word Coin comes from Coynobeline, who was the first Brittish King that stamp’d money. Not but that I am still teachable enough; and am far from resolving to shut my eyes against the Day-light.'
(Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1816, ff.476-7; Burnett 2020b, p. 1553; transcription in EMLO by Helen Watt and Brynley Roberts)
