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Harley MS 254
- Record Id:
- 040-002046082
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046082
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00020f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 254
- Title:
- Catalogues of coin collections of Simonds D’Ewes and Robert Cotton
- Scope & Content:
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Catalogues of Simonds D’Ewes coin collections (ff. 1-156), in his hand. The rest of the manuscript is a catalogue of Cotton’s coins, arranged and annotated by D’Ewes, and some Anglo-Saxon coin inscriptions.
Contents:
ff. 1-24: Catalogue of Greek coins of Simonds D’Ewes.ff. 24-30: Catalogue of consular coins of Simonds D’Ewes.ff. 31-156: Catalogues of coins of Roman rulers from Postumus to Heraclius, of Simonds D’Ewes.ff. 157-167: ‘Magnae Britanniae quae in Bibiiotheca Cottoniana Extant Exemplaria’. Coins of the Roman emperors, British, Saxon and English kings, from Julius Caesar to King James I, in the Cotton Library, 1617. Consists of the prints from John Speed’s History, with the exception of the images of the Anglo-Saxon coins which are wanting.ff. 168-169: Inscriptions of various Anglo-Saxon coins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046082 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 254 : Catalogues of coin collections of Simonds D’Ewes and Robert Cotton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0253]/040-002046082
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 205 mm.
Foliation: 169 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding, 1966, with D’Ewes coats of arms from original binding mounted on front and back paste-downs.
- Custodial History:
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Former owner: Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 254.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
A G Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 322.
- Publications:
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Marion M Archibald, ‘Cotton’s Anglo-Saxon coins in the light of the Peiresc Inventory of 1606’, in The British Numismatic Journal and Proceedings of the British Numismatic Society (2006), p. 171-203.
Colin Tite, ‘Sir Robert Cotton and the Gold Mancus of Pendraed’, in The Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 152 (1992), pp. 177–181.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415