The stories are generally whimsical, but based on antiquarian learning.

As a writer on antiquarian subjects he combined learning and picturesque statement.

Mr. Overall is of opinion that Vertue, having become possessed of the parts of a copy of the map made by some unknown Dutch engraver in the reign of William III, caused them to be " tinkered ," probably for the purpose of deceiving his antiquarian friends.

Tacitus uses Claudius ' own arguments for the orthographical innovations mentioned above, and may have used him for some of the more antiquarian passages in his annals.

" The Jacobean antiquarian, Sir Simonds D ' Ewes implied there had been a question of bringing him to trial for buggery.

Savigny's lectures also awakened in him a love for historical and antiquarian investigation, which forms the structure of all his work.

Nabonidus, in fact, had excited a strong feeling against himself by attempting to centralize the religion of Babylonia in the temple of Merodach ( Marduk ) at Babylon, and while he had thus alienated the local priesthoods, the military party despised him on account of his antiquarian tastes.

According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.

In 1575, he became Usher of Westminster School, a position that gave him the freedom to travel and pursue his antiquarian researches during school vacations.

For the antiquarian and the historian, the abiding value of his work lies in his preservation of facts in Roman history, religion, antiquities and language, which but for him might have perished.

For artistic beauty and style Gerhard had little perception ; his interest was largely antiquarian, and it is characteristic of him that he was attracted by the Etruscan art, generally of little interest to the artist.

Stow's antiquarian tastes brought him under ecclesiastical suspicion as a person " with many dangerous and superstitious books in his possession ," and in 1568 his house was searched.

* Adrian's job in the antiquarian bookstore allows him some stability.

A journey through Asia Minor in 1800 to join the British fleet at Cyprus inspired him with an interest in antiquarian topography.

The failure of his business dealings in London and the death of his first wife left him despondent: the long walks into the countryside that he took for his state of mind were the beginning of his first, antiquarian interest in church architecture.

Following medical studies at Strasburg, the younger Spon first met the son of a friend of his father, Charles Patin, who introduced him to antiquarian interests and the study of numismatics, then as now a window into the world of Classical Antiquity.

His antiquarian interests, including history, heraldry and genealogy, his rejection of industrialisation, and his search for clarity in musical composition derived from earlier models, places him firmly in the Romantic movement.

He was taken on as a young man by the antiquarian and historian of architecture, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville, who engaged him to copy manuscripts in his collection, and taught him enough of the basics of paleography that he was able to gain entrance to the École des Chartes in 1846.

They are confronted by the home's owner a Dr Samuel Holywell who they deduce to be an antiquarian and so manage to explain their presence on the pretext that they were delivering him the Tardis to form part of his collection.

The first of the annalists, the father of Roman history, as he has been called, was Q. Fabius Pictor ; contemporary with him was Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who flourished during the Hannibalic war ( not to be confused with L. Cincius, the author of various political and antiquarian treatises ( de Fastis, de Comitiis, de Priscis Verbis ), who lived in the Augustan age, to which period Mommsen, considering them a later fabrication, refers the Greek annals of L. Cincius Alimentus ).

Some academics, following the Scottish antiquarian George Neilson ( 1858 – 1923 ), have identified him with a Scottish knight, Hugh of Eglinton, and advanced his authorship of several significant pieces of alliterative verse.

Nicolas Poussin produced two major versions of this subject, which enabled him to display to the full his unsurpassed antiquarian knowledge, together with his mastery of complicated relations of figures in dramatic encounter.

" Every morning he would leave with a satchel full of rare books, despite Caresse's attempts to persuade him otherwise, and give them to waiters, barmen, and cab drivers ; sometimes he would sneak them into antiquarian bookshops that lined the Seine with ridiculously low prices penciled into them.

He devoted himself early to antiquarian research, in which he was greatly assisted by the fact that his father, Matthew Dodsworth, was registrar of York Minster, and could give him access to the records preserved there.

He did not pursue a legal career, preferring instead to follow up antiquarian interests, which took him to the records in the Tower of London.

He had a small staff at work with him ; in 1630 William Burton ( 1609 – 1657 ), a well-known antiquarian scholar, was one of his assistants.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

In Italy, he tended to be a romantic reactionary, reveling in the antiquarian spirit of the age, exemplified by a revival of classical studies and Roman law.

Smaller second-hand and specialist antiquarian bookshops can be found on the adjoining Cecil Court.

The Bavarian antiquarian Aventinus ( c. 1530 ) implied it to be Epirus, on the Balkan Adriatic coast.

As early as 1821, he wrote in a letter to fellow antiquarian Schröder that, ” othing is more important than to point out that hitherto we have not paid enough attention to what was found together ,” and, the next year, that ” still do not know enough about most of the antiquities either … only future archaeologists may be able to decide, but they will never be able to do so if they do not observe what things are found together and our collections are not brought to a greater degree of perfection .”

It is uncertain whether the same term could still be used to other types of smaller swords, but antiquarian usage in the 19th century established the use of " bastard sword " as referring unambiguously to these large swords.

However, Deyts notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar sidesaddle and holding a knife ( Boucher fig. 292, or here ), bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by the 19th century antiquarian who discovered it — perhaps because the modern symbol of the Ardennes region is also a boar ( Deyts 1992, pp. 46 – 47 ).

This " Roman " feature makes Bede's claim that Edwin was preceded by a standard-bearer carrying a " tufa " ( OE thuuf, this may have been a winged globe ) appear to be more than antiquarian curiosity, although whether the model for this practice was Roman or Frankish is unknown.

From the second half of the 18th century, however, " antiquarian " began to be used more widely as a noun, and today both forms are equally acceptable.

Various versions of the work can be traced to 18th and 19th century German sources, while an English translation was published in New York in 1880 by the German antiquarian, Johann Scheible.

His minor contributions to antiquarian research were numerous: the best known, perhaps, was his dissertation on the spelling of Shakespeare's name, which, mainly on the strength of a signature found in John Florio's copy of the work of Montaigne, he contended should be " Shakspere.

For the antiquarian collector, how a particular book's production fits into a larger historical context can be as important as the edition, even if it may not be a first edition.

The academy would include learned aristocrats as auxiliary members, and the Lord Chancellor and the two university chancellors as " tutelaries "; but the heart of the enterprise was to be the group of " essentials " who would carry on the work of licensing publications that did not fall under the purview of the Archbishop of Canterbury and advancing antiquarian and historical study.

: Ultimately it would be hard to conclude that al-Maqrizi conceived any more than an antiquarian interest in the Fatimids.

Chief among his antiquarian works must be the profusely illustrated Recueil d ' antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grècques, romaines et gauloises ( 6 vols., Paris, 1752-1755 ), which was mined by the designers of Neoclassical arts for the rest of the century.

John Stafford Smith is considered to be the first Englishman to be a serious antiquarian and musicologist.

In May 1795, the antiquarian and topographer John Swete spent some time in Dawlish and reported that although not long ago it had been no more than a fishing village, and the best lodging house would not cost more than half a guinea per week, it was now so fashionable that " in the height of the season, not a house of the least consequence is to be hired for less than two guineas a week, and many of them rise to so high a sum as four or five.

The historical misattribution may be due to the 16th-century antiquarian John Leland who cites Hasmundesham ( possibly Amounderness ) in his Collectanea, originally published in 1632, but does so without proper supporting evidence.

The majority of Hungarian scholars take the codex to be a hoax of Sámuel Literáti Nemes ( 1796 – 1842 ), Transylvanian-Hungarian antiquarian, co-founder of the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, infamous for many historical forgeries ( mostly made in the 1830s ) which even deceived some of the most renowned Hungarian scholars of the time.