'Copy' or a second edition of Christopher Wren's Numismatum antiquorum sylloge (Lond. 1708), incorporating parts of a printed exemplar of that work, and dividing it into three parts (at fols. 21, 48), the third containing 'Marmora epigrammatibus insignita', all Latin except one Greek. Fol. 1 contains a list of the divisions of the Bodleian coins about 1750, partly based on Wise's Nummi Bodleiani, in dr. Owen's hand.
'Wren continued to collect, as was noted by Hearne in 1730, and the Bodleian Library possesses what seems to be a copy of the Sylloge prepared for a second edition. It is a much cut-up and heavily annotated copy, with many new coins added by hand. But it seems to be much later, since some of it (ff.42–4) is stuck onto the pages of a sale of October 1750, i.e. after Wren’s death and indeed after the sale of his collection. Perhaps a clue to its purpose is provided by a handwritten annotation on the title page (f.4r): ‘What if it were inscribed to the two Sons of the Collector?’ It looks as if it might have been prepared by Wren, but then planned for publication by his sons, one of whom, Stephen, showed his pietas towards his family by publishing the collection of family papers made by his father as the Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens (London, 1750), at about the same time.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1251)
