Edmund Chishull - William Sherard - 1726-12-13

Edmund Chishull

Edmund Chishull - William Sherard - 1726-12-13

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	15931
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, Royal Society
InventoryInventory number.	MS 253/188
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Edmund Chishull
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	William Sherard
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	December 13, 1726
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	Charles Patin, Ezechiel Spanheim, Richard Mead, William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, Nicola Francesco Haym
LiteratureReference to literature.	Spanheim 16641, Haym 1720 vol. 22, Burnett 2020b, p. 6093
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Teos , Numismatic Literature , Greek , Prusias , Knossos , Books
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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'At the same time I beg the favour of y^r lending him [Mr. Sturt] Patins Numismatat to copy from thence pag. 94 the figure of Apollo Didymeus out of a middle brass coyn of Caligula. which coyn in Patin I beg you would look out in y^e book & show to him for fear of mistake. He will show you how and where I design it.
I want likewise to be copyed by him a small coyn of K. Prusias out of Spanheim de prest. numism. 1^st Vol. fol. imag. 5/4. if it be not too much trouble for you to send him likewise that Book, which he will return y^e same day you send it.
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I beg my humble service to D^r Mead: from whom I am promisd this favour of these coyns you brought home now placd in y^e cabinet of the Duke of Devon, viz. ΚΝΩΣΙΩΝ ΠΟΛΧΟΣ Haym 2^d. Part pag. 117. [retrograde script] pag. 144. ΣΑΞΙΩΝ pag. 147. But if I cannot see them in time I shall be contented with copying them from M^r Haym.
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But I now principally want a good coyn or two ΤΗΙΩΝ with y^e reverse a Bacchus cum cantharo, older than the times of y^e Roman Emperors if it may be had, and about the procuring of this I beg you would confer with D^r Mead, and use your joint endeavours to favour me with it.'

(Royal Society, MS 253/188; Burnett 2020b, p. 609)

References

^ Spanheim, Ezechiel (1664), Dissertatio de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum, Rome.
^ Haym, Nicola Francesco (1720), Del Tesoro britannico. Parte prima. Overo Il museo nummario. Ove si contengono le Medaglie Greche e Latine in ogni metallo e forma, non prima pubblicate, volume secondo, per Giacob Tonson, London.
^ 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.