Gale, Roger - Numismatum Romanorum Imperatorum et Imperatricum omnium metallorum & magnitudinum a Jul. Cæssare usque ad Heraclium Aug. series & valor, a Rogero Gale armigero

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Roger Gale

Gale, Roger - Numismatum Romanorum Imperatorum et Imperatricum omnium metallorum & magnitudinum a Jul. Cæssare usque ad Heraclium Aug. series & valor, a Rogero Gale armigero

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	15440
TitleTitel of the book.	Numismatum Romanorum Imperatorum et Imperatricum omnium metallorum & magnitudinum a Jul. Cæssare usque ad Heraclium Aug. series & valor, a Rogero Gale armigero
InstitutionName of Institution.	Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number.	MS Lat. Misc. f.17
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Roger Gale
Publication dateDate when the publication was issued: day - month - year .
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Roman , Roman Imperial , Emperors , Roman Provincial
LiteratureReference to literature.	Nichols 1781-1790, p. x1, Nichols 1812-1815, vol. 4, p. 5482, Burnett 2020b, p. 3983
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	Latin
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'A simpler (and slightly different) version of [the section 'Numismatum Imperialium valores prout ab Ezechiele Spanheimio aestimantur' of Gale's catalogue] was also copied in a manuscript today in the Bodleian Library, from which 20 private copies were later printed by John Nichols in 1780, as Numismatum Romanorum & Imperatorum & Imperatricum, omnium metallorum & magntitudinem, a Julio Caesare usq. ad Heraclium Aug. Series et Valor a Rogero Gale, Armigero. It is a check-list of Roman coins, arranged simply by ruler; and then by denomination (gold, silver and three sizes of bronze), in each case with a rarity index on a scale from 1 (‘Boni, sed non rari’) to 10 (‘Rarissimi’). He also used an ‘x’ to denote coins that were not then known to exist (‘qui non reperiuntur’). ... The list reveals Gale’s wide knowledge of Roman coins, and shows, as with his own collection, that it extended also to provincial coins.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 398)

RemarksRemarks regarding the annotation. (en)

Burnett 2020b, p. 398 n. 152: 'Twenty copies only printed, by J. Nichols, for Private Use, Nov. 15, 1780’ (as the colophon on the last page says). One copy, once belonging to Richard Gough, survives today in the Library of Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library Quarto 63.v.1 (ESTC N49945). I am very grateful to Kristen McDonald for sending me a scan. There was also once a copy in the library of the Royal Society: Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1825), p. 227; Catalogue of Miscellaneous Literature in the Library of the Royal Society (London, 1841), p. 102. But it is no longer there, perhaps having been sold at the Sotheby’s sale of 4 May 1925, when most of the ‘non-scientific’ books were disposed of; it is not listed in the sale catalogue, but there were many multiple lots (information from Rupert Baker, Royal Society). Nichols seems to have thought that the list was a catalogue of Gale’s collection, and following Nichols, it has always erroneously been so described , but it is in fact a version of the ‘Numismatum Imperialium valores prout ab Ezechiele Spanheimio aestimantur’, Gale’s listing of Roman Emperors and Empresses, from Julius Caesar to Heraclius. The catalogue of Gale’s coins exists in two manuscript versions, today both in the Fitzwilliam Museum.' (en)