Item 1964/1 - Letter from Philip Grierson

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JCPP/Stewartby/1/1/GRIERSON/1964/1

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Letter from Philip Grierson

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  • 1964 (Creation)

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Grierson, Philip

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Letter from Philip Grierson, in typescript, one folio [recto & verso], dated from Paris on 11 March 1964, returning "various things" and commenting upon the weather and efforts of the Presses Universitaires to track down the heirs of Engel but focusing mainly on dies and die output. He refers to "Newcastle/Bristol 1300-1302", "York 1353/1354", "Potter in BNJ 28 (1955-1957), 303" and "Potter in BNJ 31 (1962) 137". In conclusion, PG supposes that medieval dies were likely to be short-lived due to closely packed detail and narrow ridges of iron becoming blurred. There is a manuscript addendum that refers to an enclosure, no longer with the letter, described as "a not very promising letter from the Presses Universitaires" that "need not be returned".

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