Item 1987/1 - Two letters from Stewart Lyon

2 items, paper

Two letters from Stewart Lyon:
(a) typescript, single page, dated 30 June 1987, thanking IS for the BAR Cunnetti draft and noting that "there is nothing of substance with which I would quarrel" but also drawing attention to "a few minor points". He says that he is attaching copies of comments to Christopher [Blunt] on charters of CTCE [i.e. Coinage in tenth-century England] and thanks IS for his comments on chapters 3 and 15. He also congratulates IS on his promotion. In a marginal note, in manuscript, there is a reference alongside a comment on p. 8 to an "attached note from Dorothy Whitelock c. 1960".
(b) typescript, two pages on two folios (recto only), dated 5 August 1987, addressed to both Christopher [Blunt] and Ian [Stewart], thanking CEB for the hospitality he showed to CSSL during a recent visit to Ramsbury. He is writing to both of them in reference to some old typescripts that are still of interest. One concerns "the CC moneyer Igolferth[es]" and "SCBI Edinburgh 565, which reads: +IGOLFERĐESMOTO" with IN or NI in the field. He suggests that the coin belongs to Newark, which raises the possibility of a connection with the Newark moneyer Ingolf. He therefore recommends some changes to several lines of their text in Chapter 10, but the first page of the letter is cut after the fist recommended change and a further line that reads "Lines 363-5: replace by", with perhaps the bottom 3-4cm of the page missing. There are three more recommended changes on the second full-length A4 page. CSSL then discusses his unpublished paper of 1976 to the BNS entitled 'The hand types of Æthelred II in the context of Edgar's Reform', in which he devotes attention to the Tetney, Chester (1950) and Iona hoards gives a histogram similar to one that Jonsson recently sent to Christopher [Blunt]. He says that a photocopy is enclosed and suggests that it may be relevant for Chapter 18. Finally, he refers to a division of Offa's moneyers into three categories according to whether struck portrait and/or non-portrait types, "based on the seminal paper in Anglo-Saxon Coins", and noting that a photocopy is enclosed.