Jan van Vliet - Nicolaas Heinsius - 1652-05-08

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Jan van Vliet, Chelsea

Jan van Vliet - Nicolaas Heinsius - 1652-05-08
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  16405
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document. Jan van Vliet
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Nicolaas Heinsius
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . May 8, 1652
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Chelsea 51° 29' 15.06" N, 0° 10' 7.32" W
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Burman 1727, vol. 3, pp. 743-4, letter 321, Dekker 1999, p. 782, Burnett 2020b, p. 9383
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Local Finds , England , Bronze
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence Latin
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'In pago quodam exiguo Lincolniensis agri, cui a parva arce, quae ibi a Romanis quondam extructa fuit, Littleburg nomen mansit, numismata aliquot aerea bonae notae sorte fortuna nactus sum; Rustici incolae suillam pecuniam ibi vocant, quippe plerunque a suibus erutam. Spero me plura, etiam argentea, inde accepturum.' (Burman 1727, vol. 3, pp. 743-4, letter 32; Dekker 1999, p. 78; Burnett 2020b, p. 938)

['In a little village in Lincolnshire [now Nottinghamshire], which was still called Littleburgh from the small fort which had been once built there by the Romans, I was very lucky to acquire some bronze coins of a good type. The country natives there call them ‘pig money,’ since they are often dug up by pigs. I hope that I will get more from there, and some silver ones' (English translation from Burnett 2020b, p. 938)]

References

  1. ^  Burman, Pieter (1727), Sylloges epistolarum a viris illustribus scriptarum tomi quinque, apud Samuelem Luchtmans, Leidae.
  2. ^  Dekker, C. (1999) 'Jan van Vliet (1622-1666): Vicissitudes of a Philologist', in C. Dekker (ed.) The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries, Leiden, pp. 58-110.
  3. ^  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.