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-Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale (info : Guy Meyer)
-Ms 1227, Recueil de numismatique romaine, XVIIIe siècle, papier, 325 pages, 243x175 mm, demi-reliure basane, écriture de trois mains distinctes. Page 1, « Numismata aerea selectiora imperatorum romanorum..., quae notata sunt asterico x, hos omisit Vaillant, recenset Rotlinus”; Page 1472, «Numismata praestentiora, aurea et argentea, a Julio Caesare ad Tyranos usque » ; Page 261, «Prix des médailles, par M. Vaillant», et autres extraits de la main du P. Dunant, capucin de Besançon.[gardien des capucins d’Auxonne] » ; Page 309, «Médailles impériales en argent ». +
'MEMORANDUMS FOR INTELLIGENCE<br>
To Mr. Trench Naples the 16th Septemb 1712<br>
NEWS CONCERNING THE ARTS: as<br>
1) What new Works in Statuary, Painting or Engraving?<br>
2) What Antiques discover'd, or publish'd in Print &c?<br>
3) What Painters, Sculptors or Engravers of any note or young Men who are promi arrive at Rome from other Places, or are sent for to England, France , Germany, or taken Prince's or great People's Service?<br>
4) What Drawings, Pictures, Heads, Statues, Bassi Relievi, Medalls or other Pieces of modern or antique, are bought, or pass from hand to hand, or are publickly or secretly be sold? And of what valew esteem'd?<br>
5) In particular concerning Ioseppe Cari, What single Piece of his (being one of his best sort) may be had, at an easy Price'
(O'Connell 1988, p. 177; Burnett 2020b, p. 1047) +
'My wife (who sends you a thousand thanks for your kind accounts of my younger one) wrote you word in her sister's, how I was now taken up and diverted by antiquities, medals, and chiefly drawings, and pictures brought to me every day to see, my acquaintance in these matters beginning now to enlarge, and my discoveries proving more successful.' (Rand 1900, pp. 468-70; Burnett 2020b, p. 1047 n. 340) +
'You will find me, if alive, entertaining myself very busily with drawings, sketches, prints, medals, and antiques, which as well as pictures and other virtuoso-implements are brought often to my chamber and bedside; ... If you could bring with you a good book or two relating to medals, I should be very glad. I can get none here but the Italian ; none either in Latin or French.' (Rand 1900, pp. 493-4; Paknadel 1974, p. 295; Burnett 2020b, p. 1047) +
'The FEL. TEM. of the first volume-plate (which is all happiness from the right balance, liberty, and ancient model of religion) is a noted medal-inscription for ''felicitas temporum'' or ''felicia tempora''.' (Rand 1900, pp. 529-31; Burnett 2020b, p. 1047 n. 344) +
-Lettre du 25 juillet 1738 (de Gloucester): Hears B. has fine silver medals of Alexander the Great & of Antony & Cleopatra, will he sell them & if so for how much. Is B. inclined to seel his whole collection. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ballard 37, f° 211). +
'Tuckney had, rather unfortunately and surely not intending any criticism, compared D’Ewes’s gift of 500 bronze coins, in return for the previous loan to him of a gilded copy of the Bible, to the Homeric exchange of gold and bronze armour between Diomedes and Glaucus, as a sign of true friendship.' (summary from Burnett 2020b, p. 382) +
'Tuckney’s next letter of thanks is dated 18 May, but its flowery language gives little clue as to the identity of the ‘multi nummi’, ‘Sum’o laboris temporisque impendio undique conquisitos’, which the ‘pijssimus filius’ had decided to give to his alma mater.' (summary from Burnett 2020b, p. 382) +
'Right worthy & much honoured, I very heartily wish I had been able in my last letters to have expressed to you my own & the universities gratefull resentments & acknowledgments of your former bounty, but your letter hath soe exceedingly engaged us, that had I enjoyed my health I should not have known how to have gone about in any fitt manner to have returned our indebted thankes for soe noble a favour, but a late distemper of body having very much unfitted me for any thinge, was happy in this, that it putt me upon thoughts of doing it a much better way, by giving order to the Orator of the university to draw upp a letter to you, w<sup>ch</sup> in a Congregation called this day was read & very chearfully <s>and</s> by all approved, & voted to be sent to you as a publick testimony of the whole universities humble thankfulness for that great honour you have putt upon it. S<sup>r</sup> the booke w<sup>ch</sup> you sent for is herew<sup>th</sup> sent by Glenton the Carryer, w<sup>ch</sup> when you have don w<sup>th</sup>, you will please to return, nor need you doubt of our cheerful readiness to acco’modate you w<sup>th</sup> any other books we have, w<sup>ch</sup> may further you in that noble worke w<sup>ch</sup> you are soe intent upon, in which you have our most cordial desires of an happy success, for the great advancement of learning, & the glory not only of your worthy self, but also of the whole English Nation.' (BL< Harley MS 374, f.383; Burnett 2020b, pp. 382-3 n. 26) +
'Noble S<sup>r</sup>
Your goodness, which hath soe freely & abundantly heaped favours uppon us, will (we humbly desire & hope) pardon our want of such returnes, as they deserve, & you may justly expect. Your last letter directed to the university was publiquely read in ye Regent house, & both it, and your noble guift of both Roman & English coynes were very thankfully received by the whole Senate, & their thanks had been returned by their Orator, but that he was from home, & should have therefore been done after another ma’ner by me but that hurryes of business, & many bodily destempers of the toothache especially, have wholy unfitted me for any such imployment, be pleased therefore S<sup>r</sup> to accept of myne own & the whole universities humble & thankfull acknowledgments for this last & all other your great favours, w<sup>c</sup>h will be lasting monuments of your great love to learning, & this Nursery of it, & ever remaine as firme tyes & obligations uppon us to love & honour you. [Acknowledges the return of the Saxon Gospels and Aelfric and returns the bond; and looks forward to the return of the Gildas....]. I shall heartily pray that you may be long continued, & much asisted to the finishing & perfecting of what ever you have in hand or eye for the further advancing of learning, & the glory of our English Nation by it.' (BL, Harley MS 374, f.285; Burnett 2020b, p. 383) +
‘Nov. 1662, memorandum that Dr. <Herbert> Pelham of Magd. Coll. lent to me 3 Roman coines that were about 40 yeares since found at Stow Wood. (i) One was off Caligula, as it should seeme, but upon one side where the face is ’tis thus wrote: IMP. C. ALLEC[T]VS. P F. A. V. – on the revers, a woman with such a thing in her right hand ([drawing of a caduceus]) and the letter S. on the right side of her and P. on the left; the words that are round her cannot be read. (ii) The other is of the emperor Constantine with his face on one side and on the revers an armed man, an inscription about it, and the two letters of S. P. on each side of it. (iii) The other seems to be of Theodosius, and on the revers is PIETAS.—This information I gave to Dr. (Robert) Plot.’<br>
(Burnett 2020b, p. 1209) +
‘dined with Mr. Ashmole at his house in Sheer-lane, neare Temple barr; and John Davis of Kidwelly was there. After dinner he conducted A. W. to his lodgings in the Middle temple, where he shewed him all his rarities, viz. antient coines, medalls, pictures, old MSS. &c. which took them up neare two hours time.’
(Clark 1892, p. 191; Burnett 2020b, p. 1209) +
<nowiki>‘Beginning of June (<16>76) John Nourse, lord of Wood-eaton, rebuilding his house and digging up an old seller, found many old coins (brass, as was supposed) which they looking on a<s> useless, throw’d them as useless aside, which rubbish with other help<ed> to levell his court. But one of these comming into the hands of Dr. (Robert) Plot, he found that they were gold, and that that which he had was a Brittish peice, having Cunobiline on one side and Tastia <on> another. Mr. <Obadiah?> Walker also hath another. But the court and yard being finisht and paved, ’tis not yet pluck’d up againe for the gold. Brittish money hid from the Romanes. (In) Stow Wood were found Roman coines about 1651.’<br><br />(Burnett 2020b, p. 1209)</nowiki> +
Concerning procuring numismatic books in Marseille for Sherard. +
'M<sup>r</sup> Paul Lucas est arrivé depuis deux mois, il a apporté beaucoup des medailles antiquites et plusieurs divinités en Bronze, des manuscrits et des agathes, parmi les pierres il a trouve une grande quantité des ces cailloux ou bijots(?) qui representent dans leurs interieurs des dendrittes ou des ruines comme les pierres de Florence.' (Royal Society, MS 253/280; Burnett 2020b, p. 620 n. 425) +
15 mai 1672 : l'ambassadeur reçut un paquet d'Alep, avec les professions de foi du patriarcat grec d'Antioche: « On luy envoya par la mesme voie un sac de médailles. Il y en avoit une d'or de Démétrius et quinze d'argent belles et médiocrement rares. Le reste, au nombre de trente, estoit de bronze et toutes communes ». (I, p. 146) +
-21 août 1672 : on annonce un prochain envoi d'Alep: « On promettoit aussi à S(on) Exc(ellence) qu'on luy envoieroit bien tost d'autres médailles parmy lesquelles il y en avoit une d'or de Marc Aurèle de la pesanteur de deux sekins (Smyrne, page 158; 90 v; monnaie de Venise de 3,60 gr, soit 7,20 gr), plusieurs d'argent et fort belles, et une quantité de cuivre (i.e. bronze) plus nettes que celles qu'on luy avoit déjà envoyées ». (I, p. 193; arrivées le 7 octobre 1672, I, pp. 223-224) +
-10 novembre 1672 (d'Athènes) : « Le R(évérend) Père René, capucin, estant de retour d'Athènes, présenta à Son Excellence une petite figure de marbre sans teste, fort bien faite, et que j'ay jugé estre d'une Vénus, avec un petit masque et une petite teste de femme. Il luy présenta aussi trois médailles, dont il y en avoit deux d'Athènes, et l'autre représentoit une teste de front et un lis au revers, comme aux monnoies de Rhodes ». (I, p. 231). +
-19 janvier 1673 (d'Alep): « Un Grec remit entre les mains de M. l'Ambassadeur une petite bouete qu'on lui envoioit d'Alep, dans laquelle il y avoit 83 pierres gravées (intailles) dont il y en avoit fort peu ou point du tout de considerables, mais il y avoit 14 (a) médailles d'argent parmy lesquelles il y en avoit une grecque d'Aridée, frère d'alexandre, avec cette inscription: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (b) ΑΡΙΔΑΙΟΥ ΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣ » (Schefer 1881, II, p. 10-11) +
-23 janvier 1673: « En examinant de plus près les pierres gravées qui avoient estées envoyées d'Alep, i'en trouvay quelques unes d'assés passables, il y avoit un Alexandre en casque, une moumies (a), deux masques asses jolis, un centaure, un cheval pegase, un griffon, un casque et quelques autres assés nettement gravées pour pouvoir estre estimées antiques. (II, pp. 11-12). +
