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Numismata Cassauboniana: A Schedule in the Cabanett of Dr Cassobans Guift of Ancient Coines or Medalls.
general editor Brent Nelson
Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral Library CCA DCc LA/1/16 fol. 14 Brent Nelsontranscription and markup paper f.14 John Bargrave's italic hand Canterbury
Numismata Cassauboniana:
A Schedule in the Cabanett of Dr Cassobans
Guift of Ancient Coines or Medalls.
Imprimis Fowre very smale peeces of old Coine of gould, and
Three other somewhat bigger peeces of Coyne of gould
Item Siluer Coines forty and fowre. Item of Greeke Coines in Siluer, Seauen. Item ancient Siluer Coines. 15, whereof 4 not very good. Item, other coines of Siluer. 17. Item fowre Turkish and Arabick Coines. Item Nero in brass, a choice peece. Item one piece of Spanish Coyne, a suspected Counterfeit. ItēItem three pieces more I M P Victorinus in brass. It.Item eight large late brass pieces. It.Item One single brass piece more. It.Item two hundred more of brass coynes. It.Item One Clauis Anularis and 2 other Rings} Rarities It.Item One Terra Lemnia Sigillata --------------} Rarities.
A particuler of such peeces of Coyne and Rareties as are
left in the hand of Mr Thomas Fotherby Esqr., late Dr Casau-
bones
deceased, for which I haue giuen a Receipt under
my hand and seale to Mr John Dawling Executor of the
laste will and Testament of the said Dr, which are to Remayne-
Remaynemayne in my hands during the space of two
yeares, from the Death of the sayde Doctor, and
then to be by me deliuered into the Library of
Christ Church Canterbury
. And if I die within
the sayd two yeares. Then to be deliuered to the sayde
Mr Dawling upon the same Tearmes.
MemorandMemorandum that Dr Casaubon decddeceased 14th
July Anno DniDomini 1671
July 14 16743. Receiued
John Bargraue
Not in the Schedull.
MemorandūMemorandum. That I Receiued these Coynes or
Medalls, by Mr FothersbyesFothersby's Order, all mingled
together in a leather purse, in which thay con-
tinued with me untill I made that Cabanet for
them in which thay now are in the library in drawers made
for the purpose, but a greate deale of tyme and
study will be Required to putt thēthem in order.
Memorand.Memorandum Isaaci Cassauboni Ephemeris Latine, Dr Merick
Cassaubons
Fathers
Diarie in Latine, in which
there are some sheets of the Original Manuscript
wanting, and now in the Cabanet.
Dr Johan: Bargraue. [something like a backward 3 with a little circle above it] Vicedecanus. 1679.