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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 31, August 5, 2018, Article 34

ESTE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION UPDATE

Hadrien Rambach forwarded this information about two new developments in the ongoing project to reconstruct the Este collection in Florence, Italy. Thank you. -Editor

Celio Calcagnini’s manuscript

Celio Calcagnin manuscript on Este collection gold coins

By courtesy of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, this site has obtained permission to publish Celio Calcagnini’s entire manuscript regarding the gold coins present in the Este collection at the time when Ercole II d’Este (1534-1559) was Duke of Ferrara. The manuscript was drawn up by Celio Calcagnini between 1538 and 1541 and copied by his assistant and executor of his will, Gian Girolamo Monferrato, between 1541 and 1543. This Elenchus is limited to just gold coins, for a total of over 760 pieces, but it was to represent the first volume in the catalogue of Ercole’s entire numismatic collection. The work was never finished, due to Calcagnini’s death. The manuscript is conserved today at the Este University Library in Modena (Ms. Lat. 152= alfa. T6.16).

Este Gallery in Modena

Este countermarked coin

Following the collections of Este countermarked coins at the Archaeological Museum of Florence and at the Sforza Castle in Milan, next up is the Este Gallery in Modena. Photographic documentation of the collection has been successfully completed and the data regarding its roughly 300 coins is currently being entered into this site’s database.

For more information on the Este project, see:
http://www.esteproject.it/



Wayne Homren, Editor

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