The De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents

PREFACE

IT is a pleasure to acknowledge the substantial help which the translator has received in a task which, agreeable as it was, had difficulties for one who is neither an economist nor a numismatist. Professor R. A. B. Mynors has revised Wolowski’s text of the De Moneta from a better selection of MSS, and has added a description of those which he has used. The two plates are due to the courtesy of Sir John Craig, to whom I am also indebted for leave to quote from his book on The Mint, and to the kindness of the Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint and of the Trustees of the British Museum. I must also thank those friends who have helped me by their knowledge of coins: Mr C. E. Blunt, Mr P. Grierson and Mr R. H. M. Dolley. I owe much to their aid, but they are not responsible for my blunders. The editors of the Medieval Series and the publishers have also done everything in their power to make my task easier.

CHARLES JOHNSON