Sestini, Domenico, (1750 - 1832).
Museo Sestiniano o sia collezione di monete antiche fatta per onesta occupazione da Don Adelelmo Sestini Eremita di Camaldoli. Ms. Ed.: 1784.

This unique manuscript details the collection of ancient coinage of Don Adelelmo Sestini of the Camaldolian religious order. It is an important work both for the fact that it is a manuscript and also for the detailed annotations of a previous owner, Mr. Isaac Wood, who served as the ANS’s librarian from 1869 - 1880. Wood writes, in a red pen on the pages just preceding the title page, that the Camaldolites were a religious order founded by Benedictine monks in 1012 in the Apennines near Arezzo, Italy. In 1702, the order was divided into monks and hermits (“eremita” in the title), and later further divided into five separate congregations. Each of the three volumes includes a handwritten subject index at the end. Although there are no plates or other images of the items cataloged in this work, there are a number of pages scattered throughout all three volumes that were intentionally left blank or half blank, which suggests that more details might have been intended to be added later.

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