Courten, William - Remarques of Medls. How to know the true from the false - London, British Library - Sloane MS 3962, f.6

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William Courten

Courten, William - Remarques of Medls. How to know the true from the false - London, British Library - Sloane MS 3962, f.6
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  16625
TitleTitel of the book. Remarques of Medls. How to know the true from the false
InstitutionName of Institution. London, British Library
InventoryInventory number. Sloane MS 3962, f.6
AuthorAuthor of the document. William Courten
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  Forgeries
LiteratureReference to literature. Vico 15551, Burnett 2020b, pp. 777-82
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence Italian
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia 
Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'One other set of notes is entitled ‘Remarques of Medls. How to know the true from the false,’ subsequently written in Italian. This does not, of course, mean they are derived from any book, although they recall the discussion of forgeries in Enea Vico’s Discorsi. As Courten does not give any source, they may well represent his own views. The notes cover topics such as how to recognise the ancient from the modern, how to recognise a fake patina, how forgeries would be made in bronze, how to tell an ancient die from a modern one, or how to assess the corrosion products.' (Burnett 2020b, pp. 777-8)

References

  1. ^  Vico, Enea (1555), Discorsi di M. Enea Vico parmigiano, sopra le medaglie de gli antichi divisi in due libri. Ove si dimostrano notabili errori di scrittori antichi, e moderni, intorno alle historie Romane [...], appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, et fratelli, Venice.
  2. ^  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.