William Nicolson - Edward Lhuyd - 1697-05-24

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William Nicolson

William Nicolson - Edward Lhuyd - 1697-05-24

FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ	14551
InstitutionName of Institution.	Oxford, Bodleian Library
InventoryInventory number.	MS Ashmole 1816, f.492
AuthorAuthor of the document.	William Nicolson
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence.	Edward Lhuyd
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year .	May 24, 1697
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.	John Selden, Joseph Juste Scaliger, John Sharp I
LiteratureReference to literature.	Selden 16171, Burnett 2020b, p. 15542
KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ	Wales , Local Finds , Amulets , Cunobelin , British Coins , Celtic
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence	English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ	https://tinyurl.com/ydxsbb5v

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'Your Glamorganshire Coin is not singular in Countenanceing my Conjecture; with its foramen ad trajiciendum funiculum, as Bartholine expresses it. (My Lord AB of York has others of y^e same kind.) Nor is my Opinion grounded on y^t single Authority. For, besides y^e Men he quotes to shew y^t y^e Amulets of y^e Antients carry’d Monstrosi alicujus Animalis aut Dei sculpturam, I find a deal of encouragmt in it from y^e Account given of y^e old Talismath and Άβραξαἱ in Mr Selden’s Dissertations (de Dijs Syris) and Scaliger’s Epistles. One of y^e Archbishops (w^ch His Grace took to be Cunobeline’s; bearing Cuno, as ’twas guess’d) I take to be (of y^e same complexion wtth Demetrius’s ναοἱ άργυροἱ) a piece coin’d in honour of Juno, and thought to secure y^e protection of y^e Goddess to any y^t wore it about him.'

(Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1816, f.492; Burnett 2020b, p. 1554)