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Inside, the letter is addressed to Henry Fleetwood, ‘Membr of Palrliamt at Mr Chetwynds in Golden Square’, but this must be a mistake and Wanley’s name appears on the outside as the addressee +
'The notes [at the end] seem to refer to the contents of the next letter? From Sherard’s annotation, we can see that he replied to both letters on the same day.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1523 n. 2) +
Dated by Hamper 1827, p. 197 to "Possibly March 1639-40", by Burnett 2020b, p. 536 n. 183 to "probably ... 1648 or 1649". +
Date: c. 1690 ? (Enrico Noris est décrit comme travaillant à Noris 1691).
Voir aussi (apparemment la même très longue lettre):
-Lettre sans date ni lieu: Though engrossed in various business he puts it aside to reply to P. He does not propose to deal with all the points P. raised but with the most urgent ones, which relate to the period up to Domitian. He advises him on the correct dating of the secular games, which he argues in documented detail that is impossible to summarise. He refers to coins, quotes the «hateful» Martial for evidence on the date of Domitian’s Dacian campaign and the signification of his various «IMP.» titles, for Martial is the only official recorder of this period month by month. He quotes «The Danube hot with hoofbeats» etc. He proceeds to deal with the precise dating of Trajan’s Dacian campaign and his proclamation as IMP. on the banks of the Danube. He adduces many testimonies from Pliny’s Panegyric. He confutes P’s objections to his view on the date of Trajan’s second Dacian campaign, and refers to EUSEBIUS’s and MALELA’s authority. He proceeds to support further conjectures against P’s arguments, e.g. on the date of Hadrian’s tibunate; and on the occasion, of each of the series of Trajan’s proclamation as «IMP». He quotes many references to Pliny’s letters with a view to fixing the years of his office as legate to Bithynia and the editing of his letters. He speculates on the date of Pliny’s and Martial’s deaths. He proceeds to a detailed examination of the date of Ignatius’ martyrdom, referring to Ussher’s edition of his letters and to COTTONIAN parchments. He concludes that he way martyred in 116 A. D., the same year in which Dodwell argues that Simon CLEOPAS. Bp. of Jerusalem, perished. He differs from P’s view that the quinquennalia were celebrated regularly from Tiberius’ time onwards, and holds that coins were struck in several years in public thanksgiving without a specially solemn occasion. He passes on to P. Dodwell’s requests to be allowed to copy any Greek texts on IRENAEUS that may lurk in his libraries. He craves acquaintance with NORIS, who to his research on the Syro-Macedonian eras will, he hopes add interpretations of the coin inscriptions in Samaritan characters, a perhaps impossible task, unless N. can from Italian libraries supplement the precious mutilated fragment of PORPHYRIAN edited by Scaliger who received it from CASAUBON. But he is glad to hear that N. hopes to complete LAMBECIUS’ edition of the consular Fasti, for none is so well as he fitted by skill and ties of affection to carry on and use the text of a forerunner and perfect it as a monument redounding to the honour of both of them. He mentions his friendship to TOINARD, and regret for COTELIER’s death. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cherry 29, f° 34-95).
Burnett 2020b, p. 899 n. 134 notes "It is not clear who Smith was, although he occurs quite frequently in Nicolson’s diary at around this time." +
'Th[is] visit is also mentioned in the main diary: ‘5 February 1712 Morning, Mr Campbell and I attended Mr Kemp, and his rich Collection of Antiquities; where Col. Finch and Mr Wanley’ (Holmes - Jones 1985, p. 584).' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1525 n. 2) +
Letter is Copied by Robert Sibbald in his ''Adversaria'' (NLS, MS 33.3.19). +
Letter is undated but must date to around 7 November 1700, given comparison with other letters of Nicolson (FINA ID [[William Nicolson - Edward Lhuyd - 1700-11-07|14481]] and [[William Nicolson - Robert Sibbald - 1700-11-07|14484]]) +
Undated draft, but the reference to five years in Smyrna indicates 1708. +
Recipient is an unknown British consul in Acre +
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English translation by Andrew Burnett: [Do not take it ill, if I advise you that an error was made without any doubt by the typesetter in the name of the person, who decorated my Livy with his own hand. For he is called VAN DER BORCHT, not indeed Bocht [footnote: In the 1721 Hamburg edition, this mistake has been corrected. For this excellent artist, see Joachim de Sandrart’s Academy of Pictorial Art, f. 310, where he is called Henricus van der Borch, or Borchensis]. Nor indeed was he the antiquarian to Karl Ludwig, the Elector Palatine: but it was his son who had the same name and an equal understanding of antiquities. The father was a friend of the Earl of Arundel, who was most enthusiastic about antiquity, as you will be able to see from the following inscription, placed below the same man’s portrait, illustrated by the son, and engraved in copper by the most skilled Wenceslas Hollar, which I recently acquired by chance. … I have transcribed it, following the original orthography, and with the mistakes that were made. Of coins, which he with the greatest skill added to my Livy, there were 983; and of Greek and Latin inscriptions, 542. And I cannot pass over in silence, that I possess three other books illustrated by the same man’s work, and with similar images from antiquity. They are a Julius Caesar, Occo’s Coins, and the very rare work of a certain Italian, Discorso sopra le Medaglie by Sebastiano Erizzo. The last excels in the large number of coins struck in honour of the Roman Families. 13 August 1714. +
For the name of Girolamo Francesco Zanetti as author of this book, cf. Tipaldo 1838 vol. 6, p. 234. +
