Thomas Browne - Edward Browne - 1680-12-16

Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne - Edward Browne - 1680-12-16

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ	16072
InstitutionName of Institution.	London, British Library
InventoryInventory number.	Sloane MS 1847, f.119
AuthorAuthor of the document.	Thomas Browne
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Edward Browne
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	December 16, 1680
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature.	Tavernier 16771, Keynes 1964, vol. 4, pp. 162-3, letter 1132, Burnett 2020b, p. 6603
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ^ᵖ	Persian , Arabic , Larin
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ^ᵖ

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'I receaved also that odde shaped coyne by R. Moulton, with the other things; your conjecture was right that this was a larin, and some thereof might bee coyned by Sha Ismael, in Persia; butt it is properly an Arabian kind of money, and so sett downe by Tavernier, in the figures of the coynes of Asia, where hee discribeth and setts downe the figures of the larin and half larin. The larin justly answereth that you sent, hee sayeth five larins want eight souls of our crowne. This is that which the emirs and princes of Arabia take for the coynage of their money, and the profitt which they make by the marchands which travell through the desert into Persia or the Indies, for then the emirs come to the caravan to take their tolls and to change their realls, crownes, and ducates of gold into larins. The larins are one of the ancient coynes of Asia, and though at this day they are only currant in Arabia and at Balsara, neverthelesse from Braydal to the island of Ceylon, they traffick altogether with larins, and all along the Persian gulf. Taverniers Travells, second part, page one and two. Tis the oddest shaped coyne that Tavernier hath in all his figures, and better to bee taken in a good summe by wayght then tale, his figure hath one foot a litle shorter then the other as yours hath.' (British Librar, Sloane MS 1847, f.119;

References

^ Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste (1677) The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living : through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 : giving an account of the state of those countries: illustrated with divers sculptures: together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor's seraglio, by the same author, London.
^ Keynes, G. (ed.)(1964) The works of Sir Thomas Browne, 4 vols., London, Faber & Faber.
^ 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.