Grand document
From Fina Wiki
- Imported from"Imported from" is a predefined property that describes a relation to an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" target="_blank" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Import_vocabulary">imported vocabulary</a> and is provided by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" target="_blank" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>. dc:description (dc | Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1)
- Has preferred property label"Preferred property label" is a declarative predefined property to specify a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" target="_blank" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Preferred_property_label">preferred property label</a> and is provided by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" target="_blank" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>.
- Has property description"Property description" is a predefined property that allows to describe a property in context of a language and is provided by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" target="_blank" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>.
- Original passage from the "Grand document". (en)
- Originalpassage im "Grand document". (de)
Name der Seite. (de)
C
-16 septembre 1772 : « On this morning, Mr Giuseppe Bartoli was with me for some time who arrived last night from Venice and will leave today at noon for Turin in order to pass by on his way to stay in Paris. This man of letters is reader of the ‘belles lettres’ at the University of Turin and he also holds the office of antiquarian of his Sardinian Majesty, but it is for some time that he is away from Turin, for reasons of an encounter with the Royal ministers, but I believe that the main reason boils down to the fact that those ministers do not think it convenient that a foreigner be antiquarian of his Majesty, in any case the king continues to pay his pension as lecturer. I asked Bartoli whether he had any antiquity with him, and he told me to have in his travelling desk a few medals, among which was a gold coin of Aribertus, king of the Lombards, and for this reason I went with him to his accommodation which is the Public Inn of the Three Magi, and when I saw the medals I purchased the one of Aribertus which is well dear to me; a beautiful Maximianus in gold with the reverse of Herculi Victori: a gold quinarius of Antemius; and a Consular silver medal minted only on one side. This way it is a pleasure to admit a foreigner: while I lose some hour of my time, I acquire it back in some other way by increasing my collection” (Doyen – Rambach 2020, p. 19, note 98). +
Lettre du 1 janvier 1756 (de Londres) : He is sending the coins and medals he had ordered, (except two) with names and prices [Vitellius gold piece, Edward VI medallion, Charles II and James II gold pieces, Queen Anne], The prices are the lowest possible. He promises a catalogue of Mr. Folk’s sale, at which he says prices will be still higher. A customer presses him for a Charles I crown with the city of Oxford under the horse «and wonders if R. had mentioned this coin to any of his Yorks acquaintances. He had shown it to R. last summer but cannot now trace its whereabouts. Some detailed remarks at the end of the letter on several of the coins and their value. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Radcliffe Trust c. 12 fol. 24). +
-Paris, BnF, Méd. 3 AMC 18 : Acquisition du Cabinet Cary, 1755. A. Minutes des négociations pour l’achat de la collection. 7 pièces : 1. «Mémoire pour le Cabinet des médailles» par l’abbé Barthélemy, s.d ; 2. Minute d’une lettre de l’abbé Barthélemy, s.d ; 3. Minute d’une lettre de l’abbé Barthélemy au comte d’Argenson, s.d ; 4. Minute d’une lettre de l’abbé Barthélemy au comte d’Argenson, s.d ; 5. Note sur les conditions de la transaction, s.d ; 6. Lettre du comte d’Argenson à l’abbé Barthélemy, annonçant l’accord du roi pour l’acquisition du cabinet Cary (Versailles, 15 juin 1755) ; 7. Minute d’une lettre de l’abbé Barthélemy au comte d’Argenson (Paris, 22 juillet 1757). B. Catalogues ; 1. «Catalogue des médailles de feu M. Cary, de Marseille, dressé par le P. Revest, minime. 1758» (Sarmant 1994, p. 134, note 15); 2. «Note des médailles impériales en or qui sont entrées dans le Cabinet du roi par l’acquisition que Sa Majesté a faite en 1755 du cabinet de M. Cary, de Marseille». Deux exemplaires ; 3. «Note des médailles impériales en argent qui du cabinet de feu M. Cary, de Marseille, ont passé dans celui du roi». Deux exemplaires ; 4. «Vérification des médailles des rois grecs de M. Cary» ; 5. «Catalogue des médailles de rois grecs provenant du cabinet de M. Cary et mises parmi les doubles du Cabinet du roy» ; 6. «Note de médailles impériales en or provenant du cabinet de M. Cary et mises parmi les doubles du Cabinet du roi». Deux exemplaires ; 7. «Note des médailles impériales en argent qui du cabinet de feu M. Cary de Marseille ont passé dans les doubles de celui du roi». Deux exemplaires. +
Cary, Félix - Dissertation du Sr. Carri, fils d'un libraire de Marseille, sur une belle médaille d'or de son cabinet +
-Paris, BnF, Fr 22880, Président Jean Bouhier de Savigny (1673-1746), Recueil de mémoires archéologiques formé par le président Bouhier : in « Miscellanea variorum eruditorum », « XII. Dissertation du Sr. Carri, fils d'un libraire de Marseille, sur une belle médaille d'or de son cabinet, où l'on voit d'un côté la tête d'un empereur avec cette légende : L. IVL. AVR. SVLPIT. VRA. [en suscription, ANTONIN.], et au revers une figure de femme avec ce mot : FECVNDITAS AVG. », ff°73 v-78 r.
Avec, dans la marge, cet ajout de la main de Bouhier, « J'ai vu depuis cette médaille entre les mains dudt. Sr. Carri à Marseille. Elle est très antique. Le titre est suivi de la reproduction de la monnaie. Note marginale de la main de Bouhier : « Elle m'a été envoyée en 1732 par Mr. le président de Mazaugues. Mais, je crains que la description [une ligne raturée] de la médaille ne soit pas assez exacte. » [puis, second ajout] Elle est enfin décrite dans le Journ(al) de Trévoux de sept. 1734, p. 1721 avec cette légende d'un côté M. AVR. VRA. ANTONINVS, autour de la tête d'un jeune homme, vêtu d'une cotte d'arme. Et au revers, une déesse debout, qui tient de la main droite un timon, et de la gauche une corne d'abondance, et dans l'exergue FECVNDITAS AVG. On y ajoute cette conjecture du P. Tournemire, sur ce qu'on n'y trouve point les têtes d'Auguste, ni de César, qu'Uranius voulut relever sa basse naissance, et se faire croire fils d'Elagabal, feignit que cette médaille avait été frappée à sa naissance ou pendant son enfance. La cotte d'armes est un augure de l'inclination guerrière d'Uranius. Le timon présage qu'il obtiendra l'Empire; et la corne d'abondance que son gouvernement sera heureux. [Second ajout de Bouhier]. M. Maffei, dans ses Galliæ Antiquit(ates [Paris, 17331]) p. 109 parle de cette médaille qui lui est pourtant peu fiable, et les remarques de Mr. de la Bâtie sur cette médaille, dans les Dissertazioni di Cortona tome 3, p.168.
Feuille volante ajoutée par Bouhier, f° 75 : « Ceci est de la main de Mr. Laisné, ancien directeur de la monnaie de Lyon.
M IVL AVR SVLP VRA ANTONINVS
Cap. laureatum cum paludamento
FECVNDITAS AVG
Fig. mul. stans dextrâ temonem, sin. cornucop.
Nummus aureus integerrimus et extra ommen suspicionem falsitatis. Pondere quatuor denarionum cum granis decem. Fabricâ accedens ad aurum antoninorum et Alexandri.
Certa ni fallor lux affulgebit huic nummo è Tristano qui post Alexandrum nominat Antoninum et Vranium tanquam modice degustantes monarchiam tom 2 pag. 435. ubi tamen duos ex uno effecise videvi potest.
[Sur Antoine Laisné (1668-1746), Léopold Nièpce, Archéologie Lyonnaise. Les chambres des merveilles, Lyon s.d., pp. 190-192; Jean Tristan se Saint-Amant, Commentaires historiques contenans l'histoire générale des empereurs..., Paris, 1644, pp. 435-436, « Antoninus » et « Uranius », commentaires XXXI-XXXII.]
Autre feuille volante ajoutée, f° 76 : Après une première note soigneusement biffée, « Sur la médaille d'Urane ». Bouhier explique que dans le titre du Digeste, « de Fideiussoribus et Mandatoribus », 46, 1, 71 (ed. Krueger, p. 739), il avait retrouvé mention d'Uranius Antoninus dans un manuscrit antérieur à celui de Florence où il est remplacé par le nom Granius Antoninus. Bouhier dit qu'il ne fallait pas amender le texte et garder la leçon Uranius. [il n'a pas eu gain de cause.]
'[This MS] contains drawings of the two sides of a contemporary Moroccan gold coin. The coin can be identified as a gold double dinar of Abu Faris, Sharif of Morocco, dated AH 1015 (AD 1606). Casaubon transcription of the Arabic is almost entirely correct, the only little mistake being omitting the [alif] from the word [al-'abbas], and the translation is perfectly correct. This is accompanied by a second rendering of the reverse with a note reading: "this was written by a Turkish man whose home was in Buda, a man well-skilled in Latin and of no ordinary intelligence."' (Gigante - Burnett 2024) +
Notes by Casaubon on the arabic writing on Islamic coins, some of which were given to him by Rascas de Bagarris and Peiresc. +
Utinam ea publici juris facias. Erunt pro historiae compendio nepotibus. Verum duo requiri judico. Unum est, ut nummorum imagines singulis epigrammatis addantur. Alterum est, ut brevis addatur historiola, quae inscriptionis causam exponat. Hoc factitatum ab aliis, qui veteres nummos nobis dederunt, Aenea Vico, Occone, Goltzio aliisque. Et profecto memorabiles res gessimus, dignasque posteritatis memoria. Flebilis primo fuit Resp. nostrae status, exulantibus Auriaco, aliisque Belgii nobilibus. Mox veluti a morte rediviva lacertos coepit movere, & amissa recuperare. Tandem domesticos fines egressi in Orientem & Occidentem ivimus. usque adeo, ut quos metus dejecerat, jam metuendi sint. Inclinationem fecit Mavors, & propriis praesidiis ac munimentis institit de defensore sollicita Respublica. Haec libri tui, haec epigrammatum tuorum materies est. Decessit invidia & factis & dictis. Et quando nomoclastem tuum videbimus? tragoediam exactam & gravem. Redeunt ad te chartae tuae & nummi. Addidi meos, ut seligas in tuos usus, quos et quot voles. Vale. 4 Maji, 1634. +
21 Febr. 1606 (without place): “Misit mihi Welserus frontispicium immo praefationem notarum in Imagines Fulvii. Index hic est: ‘Joannis Fabri Medici Romani in imagines illustrium Fulvii Ursini a Theodoro Gallaeo in aere incisae commentarius.’ Sed cum meo nomine Welserus a Gallaeo duo exemplaria stipulatus fuerit, rogo scribas Gallaeo, ut duo illa exemplaria Roma mittat. Sed et D. Faber plurimum rogat sibi duorum ibidem exemplarum copiam fieri, id si grave nimis Gallaeo accidat, uno se contentum fore ait, pro altreo tolerabile pretium offert quare in te taedet, utrique nostrum hic gratificeris. Vale et Dn. Fratrem salve” (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum; Rooses et Ruelens I 1887, no. 75, p. 308). +
Lettre de 1654 : sur la fin du musée Vitelleschi et la vente du médaillier de Francesco Gottifredi (voir Nicolo & Solinas 1987, p. 96-97 ; Missere Fontana 2009, p. 302, note 413). +
Catalogue by George North of the collection of coins and medals made by A. C. Ducarel - Oxford, Bodleian Library - MS Eng Misc d 235 +
Catalogue by George North of the collection of coins and medals made by A. C. Ducarel, with notes and additions by Ducarel, and (fols. 1-2) a letter from North presenting the catalogue to Ducarel, 1747. +
Catalogue des medailles antiques qui se trouvent dans le Cabinet des Srs Jean Antoine & André Rose frères d’Alep +
The title page reads ‘Nummorum in Musaeo Roseano apud Alepinos series a praenobili viro domino dno Comite de Sandwich coempt'. It is a detailed catalogue of 90 pages, including ‘Medailles des Roys de Syrie, Rangés Selon Le Livre Intitulé ''Del Tesoro Britannico'' Deliné par nicola haym,’ and listing almost a thousand coins. The coins, 425 of silver and 547 of bronze, are mostly of Syria and the Roman emperors, but include some from further afield; Carthage (p. 12), Athens (p. 16), Byzantium (p. 22) and several Asian cities. The Roman coins range from Pompey to Zenobia, and include many provincial coins, especially from Syria and Egypt. +
'A Sloane manuscript is annotated ‘Catalogue of a Collection of Roman Coins, gathered in Spain, & bought by Sr H.S.’ (f.1r). Sloane was created a baronet in 17163 so the date of acquisition may well be after that year, although we cannot be sure.
The catalogue consists of three parts:
# ff.1v–9r: ‘ffamiliae Romanae Caroli Patin’
# ff.10v–21r: ‘Imperatorum Romanorum Series – Francisci Mediobarbij Biragi’
# ff.22v–38r: ‘Index Alphabethicus Omnium Augustorum Augustarum Caesarum & Tyrannorum’'
(Burnett 2020b, p. 1126) +
Catalogue of Archbishop Laud's gift of coins to the Bodleian Library in 1636, compiled by John Barkham.
Contains Sir Thomas Roe's deed of gift to the University:
'All these medalls of silver, & all my brass medalls in y<sup>e</sup> press at London, I have given to y<sup>r</sup> librarye in the universitye of Oxford, w<sup>ch</sup> I desire may be sent thither, when safely they may; and if these tymes do not envyve both y<sup>e</sup> universitye & librarye.<br>
July 6 1644.<br>
Tho Rowe' +
A catalogue of the collection of coins and medals of Archbishop William Laud, in the hand of John Barkham (1572?-1642), Dean of Bocking. Entitled (f. iv verso) 'Elenchus Numismatum Quinque Arculis comprehensorum'. Laud is not named in the manuscript.<br>
The coins are arranged in five cabinets containing: Greek and a few Jewish coins; Roman family coins; Roman imperial coins to Constantine I; late Roman imperial and Byzantine coins and foreign medals; British, Roman imperial, Saxon, and English coins and medals. The latest of the English medals has the date 22 May 1638 (f. 81v)
The collection was formed by Barkham and given by him to Laud who presented it to Oxford University in 1636 and made subsequent additions to 1639. +
'BL, Harley MS 6941, ff.35–9 [is] annotated at the end, in Wanley’s hand: ‘Catalogue of Mr Will. Clayton’s Greek Coins. Belongs to his Letter of 4th April 1721.’ The letter does not survive.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1039 n. 278) +
'The catalogue lists about 125 Greek coins, mostly of silver and bronze, but it included one gold Ptolemaic coin. It starts with ‘Seleucidae &c’, mostly silver and bronze of the Seleucid kings of Syria (f.36vr); the next section is entitled ‘Oppida’ and is a long list of Roman provincial coins, listed by by emperor, and mostly coming from Syria or Mesopotamia (ff.36v–39r); there is then a gap, and a final list of miscellaneous Greek coins, several from western Turkey (Cyme, Magnesia, Myrina, Cos), followed by a list of miscellaneous Greek coins (Athens, Syracuse, Velia in Italy, Dyrrhachium, Massalia; and then a few more coins of Syrian cities (ff.39rv). Whether or not they were bought for Harley by Wanley is not recorded.<br>
The list is not in Clayton’s handwriting and, as it contains the three coins he had given to Thoresby, it must have been drawn up earlier, presumably by Yarborough himself (or perhaps his brother). As can be seen from their predominantly Syrian and Mesopotamian origin, the coins were probably collected in Aleppo.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 617) +
The manuscript catalogue of the collection of James Sutherland still survives in the National Museum of Scotland. It is in a very fragmentary state, and not all the details are clear. It consists of two volumes, with closely written coin descriptions. The two volumes reflect the original arrangement of the collection. Each includes a series of numerals, the principal ones being Roman I–XIX in the first volume, and I–IX in the second volume. Each volume probably refers to a cabinet, divided then into 19 and 9 tray numbers, respectively. The numbers for each tray (a ‘broad’), are then followed by two series of other numbers, presumably representing a row (a ‘line’), and then individual coin spaces (‘holes’). The number of rows varies according to the size of the coins: silver denarii were kept in trays with 11 rows to each tray, each row with 13 coins, this making large trays with 143 coins. The later, larger silver or radiates, were kept in trays with 11 rows; the bronzes in trays with 8 rows; and other sizes also occur for the British coins (9 rows of 9 coins, or 12 rows of 12 coins).
The catalogue is not dated. The reference to Patin’s book of 1683 [''recte'' 1663] for the Republican coins gives a formal terminus post quem; that Sutherland did not use J. Foy-Vaillant, ''Nummi antiqui familiarum romanarum, perpetuis interpretationibus illustrati'' (Amsterdam, 1703) suggests a terminus ante quem of 1703. One of the British gold coins is dated 1701, and there is a Dutch coin dated HOLLANDIA 1702, so the catalogue was probably written in c. 1702.
=== Volume 1 ===
The catalogue starts with a list of Roman Republican silver coins: ‘Familiae Romanae a Nummis quos vulgo Consulares vocant, secundum Patinis Editionem Fulvij Ursini’ [Roman families from coins which they commonly call consular, according to Patin’s edition of Fulvio Orsini]. These comprise trays I–II (part), and occupy 11.5 pages. Although the catalogue is in poor condition, we can be confident that it is all there since the first page has the title, and the first family is the same (Accoleia) as would appear in the abbreviated version of the catalogue of the Republican coins which Alexander Gordon published in 1726. There are 218 Republican coins, plus a denarius of Juba.
The Republican coins are followed by 26 pages devoted to ‘Numismata Argentea Imperatorum Romanorum’ [silver coins of the Roman emperors], from Caesar to the mid-third century, and they comprise trays II (part) to VII.5 [fn: These divisions are mine, not Sutherland’s, are intended to convey the shape of his collection. In what follows, the numbers should be regarded as approximate, as it is not always easy to tell exactly how many coins are listed]
138 Caesar to Domitian<br>
285 Nerva to Commodus<br>
138 Julianus to Volusian<br>
46 Valerian to Carausius<br>
27 Constantine to Justinian: mostly western mint marks (20).
The list of 634 coins includes some rarities, such as Didius Julianus and Orbiana, but it is not a complete listing of emperors and their families (e.g., no Balbinus or Aemilian). The large number of late first and early second century coins is suggestive of a hoard, and the same conclusion could be drawn from the predominantly western mint marks on the late Roman siliquae, indicative of a British hoard. Selection has clearly been at work, however, since there are only nine coins of Elagabalus compared with seven for the various women of his family. One curiosity is a coin of ‘Horace’, listed under Augustus, a modern piece.
The next section starts with tray VIII, and continues to XIV, catalogued over 18 pages. The trays have rows of 8 coins, reflecting the generally larger size of the coins. There is no heading, but its contents show that it concerns ancient bronze coins, as one would expect next in the sequence. It starts with a few Greek (only eight pieces); then a single Republican bronze coin, followed by a forgery of Caesar, before the main imperial sequence starts:
8 Greek<br>
1 Roman Republican<br>
1 Julius Caesar, false<br>
64 Augustus to Domitian, including one Nero from Alexandria, and three false Othos<br>
90 Nerva to Commodus, including one Greek<br>
Antinous<br>
46 Severus to Volusian, including two provincial coins of Gordian III (Istrus, Perinthus)<br>
48 Gallienus to Numerian, including a supposed Domitius Domitian.<br>
117 Diocletian to Julian, including three Carausius and three Allectus. Mostly western mint marks (London, Trier)<br>
16 Valentinian I to Theodosius<br>
6 Byzantine
Many of these 271 coins were worn, and Sutherland was unable to read the legends fully; on one occasion he wrote ‘sequuntur sex Antonin Pij Nummi adeo detriti ut explicari nequeant’ [six coins of Antoninus Pius follow, so worn that they cannot be explained]. Their poor condition suggests site finds, no doubt British. Some were clearly from further away (the Greek, Roman provincial and Byzantine coins).
The next section is entitled ‘Gold Medals’ and covers three pages. It starts again at tray I, continuing to III, and describes large gold coins. The coins are at first numbered in a sequence from 1 to 81, starting with a forgery of Nero, the medal of John, Duke of Albany, and then a further 79 English and Scottish pieces down to Charles I; they are followed by a miscellaneous group of 17 coins: Charles II (3); William III, dated 1701; Anglo-Gallic (1), Papal (1), ‘the three next small Pieces are Russia coyn with Sclavonian characters’; ‘the seven pieces following are East India Coyn’; and Henry, King of France (1).
The large gold coins are followed by a page devoted to 22 smaller Roman and Byzantine gold coins, still in tray III. There are 14 aurei from Augustus to Hadrian; six solidi from Valentinian I to Honorius; and finally two solidi, one each of Majorian and Anastasius.
After the gold coins come three pages for the Scottish silver, continuing tray [XVI], and including XVII–XVIII, and describing 149 coins, down to Francis and Mary, dated 1559.
The remaining ten pages of the first volume of the catalogue start the English coins. Four pages, beginning with tray XV, describe coins from Coenwulf to Henry I (81 coins: 9 rows of 9 coins), and XVI, Henry I to Edward (144 coins: 12 rows of 12 coins). The next two pages have no tray or row numbers, and describe a curious mixture of about 106 poorly preserved British and continental coins, followed by a mention of another 28 coins.
The numbering then has XVIII, 9, resuming the sequence from a few pages before, after the interruption of the gold and Scottish coins. Four pages cover the rest of XVIII and XIX, listing 127 coins down to William and Mary, followed by a few miscellaneous pieces including a ‘Cedar Tree’ shilling of New England.
80 English and Scottish gold<br>
149 Scottish silver<br>
352 English<br>
106 Miscellaneous medieval<br>
=== Volume 2 ===
The second volume is in rather better condition than the first, and describes fewer coins, over 17 pages. However, they are not well-ordered and it is hard to follow. One gets the sense of a large number of unsorted coins, roughly put into groups, but not properly sorted like the coins in the Volume 1.
The coins are listed in trays I to IX. They begin with Henry VIII to the Commonwealth (35), New England (3), French (43); and then 482 miscellaneous coins and medals from Germany, Poland, Venice, Papal (22), Scottish, ‘Exotick’, and elsewhere, not well sorted.
These include:
"The Three next Pieces are filled w<sup>th</sup> Arabick and other Strange Characters<br>
...<br>
The nineteen Pieces following, of different sizes and weight, are the Mogul’s Coyn with his country characters on both sides<br>
The five next Rude thick round Pieces belong to Japan<br>
The eighteen small oval Pieces in the two holes following are Muscovia Coyn. A figure on horseback, on one side, and Sclavonian Characters on the other. The seven following unshapely pieces I suppose to be Polish Coyn<br>
The next twenty Pieces are Turkysh Coyn wth Arabic Characters<br>
The seven next Pieces, all in one hole, are Exotick Pieces very Rude and course, hard to be known.<br>
...<br>
Three Pieces of China, of a Kind of Pewter, w<sup>th</sup> strange Characters. The currant Money of that Place, brought me from that Country<br>
1353<br>
The ten following are very Exotick, w<sup>th</sup> Arabick and other strange Characters, of Copper."
The volume ends with a number of loose sheets which represent another version of the catalogue, starting with the English Anglo-Saxon coins (four pages). Then there are two pages, on either side of a piece of paper in very poor condition of Greek coins, not included earlier. The first has 15 pieces; the second starts with ‘Nummi Judaici’, and then lists out an uncertain number (perhaps 10–20). They are followed by another six pages, listing many continental coins and medals (and a group of seals and rings), some of which seem to repeat earlier entries. The status of this last group of pages is not clear.
The total number of coins is 2397 (not including the final group, described in the previous paragraph):
==== Vol. I ====
8 Greek, all bronze<br>
219 Roman Republican<br>
906 Roman imperial, including 23 gold (of which two were false)<br>
14 Byzantine<br>
80 English and Scottish gold<br>
149 Scottish silver<br>
352 English<br>
106 Miscellaneous medieval<br>
==== Vol. 2 ====
563 Miscellaneous British and European (and ‘exotick’) coins and medals.'
(Burnett 2020b, pp. 1534-6)
<nowiki>'A manuscript catalogue was made of the collection, and six relevant volumes survive in the archives at Chatsworth House (CH 36/4/1 to/6). They probably represent the whole catalogue although there is no listing of the Greek coins, apart from the gold ones in CH 36/4/6 and the large ones in CH 36/4/1. So it is possible that there was once a further volume. The surviving volumes cover, following their numbering in the archives, and as described on their spines, their titles pages (with an outline of their contents added in brackets, as necessary):<br /><br />1. Nummi Argentei Denarii. Imp. Rom. Denarii. (Roman Imperial silver)<br><br />2. Nummi Aerei Romani. Devonshire Collection. Great & Middle Brass. (Larger Roman Imperial bronze)<br><br />3. Nummi Argent. Famil. Consular Denarii. (Roman Republican silver)<br><br />4. Catalogue of English Coins and Medals. Catalogue of English Coins. In the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. (British coins and medals)<br><br />5. Nummb Orci I (sic). Medallions, Contorniates, Medals & Small Brass. (Roman bronze medallions and contorniates, and smaller Roman bronze coins)<br><br />6. Nummi Aurei. Catalogus Nummorum Aureorum in Bibliotheca Devoniana (Greek and Roman gold, plus astrological coins of Jahangir)<br><br /><br />The level of cataloguing is quite detailed, with the inscriptions and the designs being described for the ancient coins, and there is usually a bibliographic reference. The catalogue was made drawer by drawer, and the drawer numbers appear at the top tight of the relevant page (e.g., Aur1, Aur2, etc.).<br /><br />There is enough internal evidence to enable us to establish a date of c. 1761 for the catalogue. In the catalogue of the Roman gold coins (CH 36/4/6), it is stated that ‘The references here are to \Morell of/ the King of Frances Medals \etched &/ published by Count Caylus & to Lord Pembrokes Medals,’ books published in 1745 and 1746, respectively. In addition, the same volume includes a rare aureus of the Romano-British usurper Allectus (293–6), which was purchased by Lord Cavendish—as he still was for a few months—at the sale of the collection of Richard Mead in early 1755. One of the Roman bronze coins in CH 36/4/5, of Julius Caesar, has a reference to a book by Nicola Haym published in 1719–20, but also to ‘Florez’, a book published in 1757. The clearest indications are, however, in the catalogue of English coins (CH 36/4/4), where the coins are arranged chronologically by denomination. The latest gold coin is of 1761, and the same date appears for a proof coin of George III.<br /><br />There is nothing later, but, sometime after the catalogues had been drawn up, one entry in the volume of Republican coins (CH 36/4/3) was annotated in pencil, ‘The first medal wanting June 1773.’ Thus the volumes can formally be dated to between 1761 and 1773, and, as there are no entries later than 1761, it seems likely that they were written in c. 1761–4.' (Burnett 2020b, pp. 1645-6)<br /><br />***<br /><br />'There is also a further volume (CH 36/4/7), of a different size and labelled NUM MAX MOD (‘Coins of the largest size’) on the spine, which consists of drawings in red and black ink of many Roman medallions. It has no sign of date or authorship.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1647)<br /><br />***<br /><br />'Another loose piece of paper kept in the catalogue of English coins (CH 36/4/4) gives Michael Lort’s (‘M.L.’) account of a robbery in 1788. His account shows that 177 gold coins were lost, but nothing else. The thief, ‘Mason’, was presumably an employee of the Duke at Devonshire House.' (Burnett 2020b, pp. 1647-8, also with transcription)</nowiki>
'The relevant pages consist of a summary bill, with various bits of arithmetic. The sale of [Lady Carteret's] coins has been attributed to Sloane [by Archibald 1994], and, although there seems nothing else in the volume that concerns Sloane’s collection rather than that of Sambrooke, the sale must surely be one by Lady Carteret to John Kemp (1665-1717), which we know about from other sources. However, we still need to decide what to make of the presence of the papers in this volume, otherwise devoted to Sambrooke and among Sloane’s papers. Might it have been the case that the coins, or some of them, passed from Kemp to Sambrooke; or from Kemp to Sloane; or from Kemp to Sambrooke and then to Sloane?' (Burnett 2020b, p. 783) +
Catalogue of the works of art in the Long Gallery, Chair Room and Cabinet Room at Whitehall - V&A, MS 86 J 13 +
The Victoria and Albert Museum's MS. 86. J. 13 contains a list of the works found in the King's Gallery at St James's Palace, not included in any of van der Doort's manuscripts, and an alternative record of the contents of the Little Bi-Room between the Breakfast Chamber and Long Gallery (untitled), the Long Gallery, 'his Ma<sup>ties</sup> Closet by the Privy Gallerie in Whitehall' (otheriwse known as the Cabinet Room) and the Chair Room. This manuscript is not written by van der Doort or his assistant and might have been executed by another courtier, Sir James Palmer, and dated c.1640. (from https://lostcollection.rct.uk/charles-i/inventories)
Coins are listed on ff.58-70 +
