Notae Romm & Graecc. Jo. Casp. Scheuzer - London, British Library - Sloane MS 3406

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Johann Caspar Scheuchzer

Notae Romm & Graecc. Jo. Casp. Scheuzer - London, British Library - Sloane MS 3406
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  16571
TitleTitel of the book. Notae Romm & Graecc. Jo. Casp. Scheuzer
InstitutionName of Institution. London, British Library
InventoryInventory number. Sloane MS 3406
AuthorAuthor of the document. Johann Caspar Scheuchzer
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  Roman , Greek , Seleucids , Ptolemies , Roman Republican , Roman Imperial
LiteratureReference to literature. Burnett 2020b, p. 11281
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia 
Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'One of Scheuchzer’s notebooks is preserved among the Sloane papers (BL, Sloane MS 3406), annotated ‘Notae Romm & Graecc. Jo. Casp. Scheuchzer.’ It contains lists of Latin (ff.2–18) and Greek (ff.19–26) abbreviations that occur on coins, together with their expansions. It ranges widely across Greek (including Seleucid, Ptolemaic and Cappadocian), and Roman coins (including Republican, Augustan, Vabalathus, Diocletian and Justinian). It is well informed, though not always correct; for example XCVI on silver coins of the tetrarchy (in nummis Diocletiani, Maximiani, & Constantij Caesaris) is interpreted as standing for Decennalibus Constantij Vota Imperij (f.18); and sometimes it is fanciful, for example, P.L.II.VC., which he had read on a coin of Tetricus (In nummo Tetrici) is expanded as Praesidiaria legione Illiberi (?) Imposita Vobis Conservator (f.12). He did not complete his notes, since the Greek part stops at the letter Σ.' (Burnett 2020b, p. 1128)

References

  1. ^  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.