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Harley MS 255

Record Id:
040-002046083
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046083
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 255
Title:
Papers on numismatics, with letters of Sir Simonds D’Ewes and others
Scope & Content:

Loose papers relating to numismatics, mostly very rough notes in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes. Written on the back of letters or papers on other subjects.

Contents:

ff. 1-24: Rough notes on British coinage, written on the back of recycled letters. Heading: ‘Prolegomena ad Thesaurum Numarium Britanno-Anglicum’ (f. 1).

ff. 25-26: Notes on the back of as manuscript note: ‘A breife note how the case betweene Sir Thomas Middleton and Sir John Price stands in charge and proofe’ [imperfect].

ff. 29-37: ‘Notitia sive Elenchus generalis Numorum aeneorum, aureorum, argenteorum, sub-aeratorum, et argento tinctorum Romanorum a Julio Caesare usque ad Heraclium [etc.]’. Title and a few loose notes.

ff. 38-50: Gold coins in D’Ewes’ collection. Notes headed: ‘Numi Aurei rem Romanam tangentes in Musaeo Simondsii Dewesii Equitis Aurati & Baronetti’. 4 December 1649.

f. 51r: Consular coins of Simonds D’Ewes, headed ‘Redundantes me penes numi consulares’.

ff. 51v-53: ‘Numi Consulares apud S.D. &c redundantes ad Ursini Tabulas’.

ff. 54-58: Names of Roman emperors, empresses, tyrants, etc. from Julius Caesar to Heraclius. Written on the back of re-used documents including part of the will of Richard Symonds of Cokesden, Dorset, grandfather of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (f. 58v).

ff. 59-60: Index of Roman coins belonging to Simonds D’Ewes.

ff. 61-126: Description of some Roman coins belonging to Simonds D’Ewes, written on back of re-used documents, including

  • • f. 62v: Letter from Simonds D’Ewes to Sir Hamon L’Estrange.
  • • f. 63v: Letter from Edward Leigh, author of Critica Sacra to Simonds D’Ewes.
  • • f. 64v: Letter from Thomas Stuteville to Simonds D’Ewes, 27 Jan 1636.
  • • f. 78v: Letter from William Dugdale to Simonds D’Ewes, 26 February 1647.
  • • f. 80: Letter from Robert Cogan to Simonds D’Ewes, 1 May 1634.
  • • f. 82: Letter from John Brograve to Simonds D’Ewes, 31 September 1647.
  • • f. 87v: Letter from William Ivatt, 24 July 1647.
  • • f. 89v: Letter from John Bowditch and John Freke, Chardstock, 13 June 1627.
  • • f. 91v: Letter from John Bowditch and John Freke, Chardstock, 18 June 1623.
  • • f. 93v: Letter from John Brograve, 6 May 1637.
  • • f. 95v: Letter from John Bowditch to Paul D’Ewes, 7 November 1624. With the answer.
  • • f. 97v: Letter to Simonds D’Ewes, 28 June 1647.
  • • f. 98: Letter from John Covell, 2 February 1646.
  • • f. 99v, f. 108: Letter from Mrs Poley (Elizabeth Poley, sister of Simonds D’Ewes).
  • • f. 100: Letter from William Elyott (brother in law of Simonds D’Ewes), 3 April 1647.
  • • f. 102: Letter from William Elyott (brother in law of Simonds D’Ewes), 8 February 1646.
  • • f. 104: Letter from William Elyott (brother in law of Simonds D’Ewes) to Simonds D’Ewes, 21 December 1646.
  • ff. 127-219: Draft catalogue descriptions of coins in Simonds D’Ewes’ collections, headed ‘Nummorum Imperatorum Romanorum Notitia in Musaeo S.D. conditorum’.

ff. 220-225: Section headed ‘Numi Romani et Anglici comparandi’.

ff. 226-235: Section headed ‘Numi Anglo-Saxonici et Neustro-Anglici’ (Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman coins).

ff. 236-260: Section headed ‘Numi Anglici’ (English coins, including coins of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046083
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 255 : Papers on numismatics, with letters of Sir Simonds D’Ewes and others
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0254]/040-002046083
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1649
Date Range:
1st half of 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 325 x 205 mm.

Foliation: 1-78 + 78* + 78** + 79-253 + 253* + 254-260.

Binding: British Museum binding, 1967, with leather from boards of former British Museum binding mounted on front and back paste-downs.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 1, no. 255.

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. 146.

Publications:

The letter from Sir William Dugdale to Sir Simonds D’Ewes, 26 February 1647 (f. 78v) was published as letter 38 in An Index to the Manuscript Collections of Sir W. Dugdale, being Part 2 of the Appendix to his life, diary and correspondence, ed. William Hamper (1827), pp. 204-205.

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