‘Some Remarks on a Silver Medal struck to the memory of Laurence Coster, shown the Society the fift of December 1745. By J Ames.’ pp.287-8.
Reference code
SAL/10/10/050
Title
‘Some Remarks on a Silver Medal struck to the memory of Laurence Coster, shown the Society the fift of December 1745. By J Ames.’ pp.287-8.
Date
5 December 1745
12 December 1745
12 December 1745
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
2 pp
Scope and content
Medal shown to the Society by Richard Rawlinson, 5 December 1745: Minute Book V, pp.43,44 (SAL 02/05/037), and commented on by George Vertue, 12 December 1745: Minute Book V, p.45 (SAL/02/005/038). 'Remarks' also transcribed in ‘Register Book’, fol.158r-v (SAL/10/09/53).
Concerning a medal commemorating Laurence Coster of Haarlem. With an added note by Ames, 22 August 1750, that he had visited Haarlem to seek further evidence that Coster had invented printing and to see the woodcut book Speculum Salvationis.
See A.M.Hind, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut (reprint 1963), I, 208-9, 246, II, 574.
Concerning a medal commemorating Laurence Coster of Haarlem. With an added note by Ames, 22 August 1750, that he had visited Haarlem to seek further evidence that Coster had invented printing and to see the woodcut book Speculum Salvationis.
See A.M.Hind, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut (reprint 1963), I, 208-9, 246, II, 574.
Creator
Rawlinson, Richard (1690-1755), non-juring bishop, topographer and antiquary
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759), bibliographer and antiquary