Collections on the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone
Reference code
ROS
Title
Collections on the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone
Date
c. 1802
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Paper; ff.ii + 96 (with an unnumbered pamphlet).
Folio.
Leather binding, brown, edges gilt.
Folio.
Leather binding, brown, edges gilt.
Scope and content
Collections mostly concerning the Greek inscription on the Rosetta stone commemorating the accession of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, from the papers of the Rev. John Brand, Sec. SA. The Rosetta stone was deposited in SA, 1802-3 (see Evans (1956), 199-200; Minute Book XXIX, p.146, and many subsequent communications conc. the inscriptions). The papers consist of annotated transcriptions, notes on related topics mostly from bibliographic sources, and papers relating to casts and the facsimile engraving (1802) by James Basire (Vetusta Monumenta, IV (1815), pl.VII). See also Archaeologia, 16 (1812), 208-63. Bound in at the end a copy of Reflections on the Natural Foundation ... of Government ... in Egypt (Oxford, 1743).
Creator
Brand, John (1744-1806), antiquary and historian
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/220
Archival history
The library of the Rev. John Brand was sold by W.Stewart, Piccadilly, 6 May 1807, 8 Feb.1808 (see T.F.Dibdin, Bibliomania (1809), 605-11). Presented by William Richard Hamilton, FRS, FSA, 19 Dec.1851 (fol.ii). Proc., 1st ser., 2 (1849-53), 196. See also Proc., 2nd ser., 1 (1859-61), 135-6 (obituary of W.R.Hamilton).