Ashmole, Elias - The Impressions of severall Pieces of gold belonging to his Maties Cabinet King Charles the 2nd
Elias Ashmole, Oxford
Ashmole, Elias - The Impressions of severall Pieces of gold belonging to his Maties Cabinet King Charles the 2nd
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 15338 |
| TitleTitel of the book. | The Impressions of severall Pieces of gold belonging to his Maties Cabinet King Charles the 2nd |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | Oxford 51° 45' 7.25" N, 1° 15' 28.26" W |
| InventoryInventory number. | MS Ashmole 1138 (= MS Cons. Res. C 27) |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. (Collector) | Elias Ashmole |
| Catalogue dateDate when the catalogue was issued: day - month - year . | |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | Charles II of England |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Burnett 2020b, pp. 343-4Burnett 2020b |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ | |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | Impressions , Wax |
Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
'MS Ashmole 1138 (= MS Cons. Res. C 27) is a very fragile volume containing 144 leaves. Red wax sealings are affixed to a number of the pages, usually leaving 3–4 blank pages in between, as a sort of buffer between them.209 Although f.1 is entitled ‘The Impressions of severall Pieces of gold belonging to his Maties Cabinet King Charles the 2nd’, the volume also includes sealings of many of the gems in the royal collection. In addition much of the later part of the volume is, in fact, devoted to sealings of contemporary personal seals, whose annotations indicate that they had been gathered by Ashmole on his travels around the country, and they are mostly arranged by county. These personal seals are often accompanied by dates, and the dates recorded indicate that they were mostly made in 1663–5, but two other items are dated 1670 and 1673. This suggests that the volume began as a record of those royal coins of which, for some reason, Ashmole wished to make an exact copy, but that he went on to use the same volume as the container for the sealings he later made elsewhere. He sensibly kept the same sort of medium in the same place.' (Burnett 2020b, pp. 343-4)
