Charles Hill - Humfrey Wanley 1694-04-02

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Charles Hill, Rugeley

Charles Hill - Humfrey Wanley 1694-04-02
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  14024
InstitutionName of Institution. London, British Library
InventoryInventory number. MS Harley 3780, f.49
AuthorAuthor of the document. Charles Hill
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Humfrey Wanley
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . April 2, 1694
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Rugeley 52° 45' 32.18" N, 1° 56' 10.32" W
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. Adolf Occo, Ezechiel Spanheim, Francesco Mezzabarba Birago, William Camden, Obadiah Walker
LiteratureReference to literature. Camden 15861, Spanheim 17062, Mezzabarba Birago 16833, Burnett 2020b, pp. 1156, 12444
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Vota , Numismatic Literature
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

I have read so very little of Coyns that I am very unfit to commend any Books yt Treat of them. Spanhemius de Praestantia et usu Numismatum (a 4to) is counted an excellent Treatise for ye Erudition & MezzoBarba’s late Edition of Occo (a large Folio) is ye fullest Collection yt is extant. Mr Obadiah Walker late Master of University College has published a pretty Treatise in English about 3s price very instructive & usefull for beginners. What you mention of VOTIS MVLTIS is always accompanied with numerall Letters as VOTIS V MVLTIS X or VOTIS X MVLTIS XX sometimes VOTIS XXX MVLT XXXX. They doubtless allude to Vota suscepta pro salute Imperatoris which were Quinqennalia, Decennalia, Vicennalia &c. & MVLTIS is put for MVLTIPLICATIS & signifies Votis decennalibus multiplicatis in vicennalia or perhaps is not a contraction but signify yt some of ye Vota were decennalia & many [MVLTIS] vicennalia. I have no Books \by me/ to explain it better, nor any Book of my own in ye Country on this subject. As I remember Mr Camden in his Britan. has a Coyn of this Nature. (BL MS Harley 3780, f.49; Burnett 2020b, pp. 1156, 1244)

References

  1. ^  Camden, William (1586) Britannia siue Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio, London.
  2. ^  Spanheim, Ezechiel (1706), Disputationes de usu et præstantia numismatum antiquorum, I, 3rd ed., R. Smith, London.
  3. ^  Mezzabarba Birago, Francesco (1683). Imperatorum romanorum numismata a Pompeio magno ad Heraclium ab Adolfo Occo ne olim congesta, nunc augustorum iconibus, perpetuis historico / Chronologicis notis, plubribusque additamentis illustrata, et aucta. Mediolani: Ex Typographia Ludovici Montiae.
  4. ^  Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.