The Digital Ark :: Samuel Shuckford

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

Samuel Shuckford, Dr. (1693/4 - 1754)

English cleric and antiquarian. He earned an M.A. from Caius College, Cambridge, in 1720 and was later awarded the Lambeth degree of DD (conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury). He was installed Prebend of Canterbury on 17 March 1738. It was probably after this that he set out cataloguing Bargrave's and Casaubon's coin collections. Canterbury Cathedral Lit. Mss. E16c declares itself to have been “taken by Samuel Shuckford DD Canon of Canterbury,” seeming to indicate that he undertook the catalogue of coins that it contains. Lit. Mss. E16b and two loose-sheet lists of coins (grouped with the Bargave labels) seem also to be in the same hand and therefore traceable to Shuckford. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shuckford Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)
Cataloguer
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury
Relationships: Samuel Shuckford was a unspecified to John Bargrave (1610-1680)

Linked manuscripts: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16b, Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives,
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16c, Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives,
Linked manuscript items: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - "Brass Medals and Coins belonging to the Library of Christ’s Church Canterbury In the Cabinet inscribed BARGRAVEANA & CASAVBONIANA beginning from the right hand side of the lowest Drawer," Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16c, Canterbury Cathedral
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - "[coin catalogue]," Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16b, Canterbury Cathedral
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - "[coin catalogue]," Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16d, Canterbury Cathedral
Linked print sources: as Cataloguer - Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd in Several Dissertations .
as Mentioned or referenced by - Historia Byzantina duplici commentario illustrata.
as Mentions or references - Discours de la religion des anciens Romains.
References in Documents:

Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (k) Original paper label "Frō Roma subterranea / where thousands of old / Christian martyrs lay buried / 1647 J Bargrave", presumably the same as "A piece of Earth from Roma Subterranea" in Dr Shuckford’s Catalogue of 1748. Contents lost.

Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) [iii] Two mildly lewd medals, of similar taste to the ring, were found by Dr Shuckford in Casaubon’s cabinet and attributed to him. But they may be Bargrave’s, if we assume that the ring was. The medals, both from the same mould, portray an old man looking left on one face and a satyr’s head looking left and covered in phalli in lieu of hair on the other.

Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) The two collections of antique coins were amalgamated into Casaubon’s cabinet in about 1748 by another Canon of Canterbury, Dr Samuel Shuckford, author of an encyclopedic world history, who painstakingly distinguished and listed them. A high proportion of the individual coins can be restored, on paper, to their original collections. But a draft manuscript list of some of his coins, made by Bargrave when they were in various separate batches as he had bought them, does include one or two marked by Shuckford as Casaubon’s. This shows that some of the coins had been confused already by the mid 18th century.

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b) [Miscellaneous Notes] Samuel Shuckford transcriber and author

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b) An Inventory of the Imperatorial brass Coins belonging to the Library of Christ's Church Canterbury Samuel Shuckford author

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b)

Revd Sir,

I herewith return ye Catalogue, for ye sight of which I return you my Thanks. Dr Shuckford has enter'd none but ye Brass Imperial Medals. among which, I can find none, at most very few, that are scarce. It is Pity he did not go through with his Work, and take an Invetory also of ye Silver Imperial, Consular, Urbium et Populorum, &c. Which, from what little notice I had an Opportunity of taking, when Mr Halford shew'd Me Them, seem'd to be ye much more Valuable Part of ye Collection.

Bryan Faussett

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d) amongst the Medals which Motraye tells he bought of a Jew Samuel Shuckford transcriber

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d) [An extract from Arbuthnot] Samuel Shuckford transcriber

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d) A Copy of a Silver Coin Samuel Shuckford author

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d) In Cabinet. Brass Miscellaneous Medals and Coins Samuel Shuckford author

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d) Between 1748 and 1754 Canterbury CathedralAlthough the primary scribe is Shuckford, there are later additions in at least two other hands, usually supplying wanting information.

A list of some objects (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers) Untitled List John Bargrave author