Audley End Part 8: Henry Neville and Henry Savile Annotations in Roman Antiquities

Topic: Audley End Part 8: Henry Neville and Henry Savile Annotations in Roman Antiquities

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• Source-tier warning, 2026-04-28: this packet is a later Audley End Roman Antiquities blog/image update. The Billingbear 1546 Dionysius line and public Dionysius text controls are hardened separately, but the higher-resolution annotation images, Savile/Neville hand separation, and Audley End physical-copy identity are not yet independently cataloged in this packet.

• The same post states that the focal annotation reads:

“Ancus Martius and Tarquinius Collatinus are omitted here, who reigned for 62 years. When these are added, the entire count of years will square.”

• The same post states:

“This annotation relates directly to The Rape of Lucrece and Coriolanus.”

• The same post states of Savile’s hand:

“Multiple annotations found on pages 9, 11, 185, and 255”

• The same post states:

“References to Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, connecting to the opening argument of The Rape of Lucrece”

• The same post states:

“The concurrent presence of both scholars' annotations in the same volume strengthens Neville's connection to the classical texts”

• The same post lists among the referenced sources:

“John Casson's discovery”

• The same post also lists:

“Digital facsimiles from Bavarian State Library”

• A 2026-04-21 web audit found LacusCurtius as the best public text/translation control for Dionysius's Roman Antiquities. It confirms the work's structure and its sections on Ancus Marcius and Coriolanus, but it is not a witness for the Audley End copy or its annotations.

• The working Billingbear transcription gives a direct local catalog line for a 1546 Dionysius of Halicarnassus Greek edition at IMG_8164.png:

“Edit. Princ. Dionysius Halicarnasseus (Graecè) ... Lutet. R. Steph ... 1546”

• Direct PNG inspection by Codex on 2026-04-21 confirms that the Dionysius Halicarnasseus / 1546 line is visibly present in IMG_8164.png and matches the working transcription in substance. This supports the Billingbear-list side of the 1546 Dionysius claim; it still does not independently verify the Audley End copy or handwriting attribution.

2. Ken Feinstein Twitter and Blog Information

• A Ken Feinstein blog post dated 16 Oct. 2020 states that it discusses:

“newly acquired higher-resolution images of annotations discovered in a 1546 copy of Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus”

3. Quoted Source Text

Ken Feinstein blog post, 16 Oct. 2020

• “newly acquired higher-resolution images of annotations discovered in a 1546 copy of Roman Antiquities by Dionysius of Halicarnassus”
• “Ancus Martius and Tarquinius Collatinus are omitted here, who reigned for 62 years. When these are added, the entire count of years will square.”
• “This annotation relates directly to The Rape of Lucrece and Coriolanus.”
• “Multiple annotations found on pages 9, 11, 185, and 255”
• “References to Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, connecting to the opening argument of The Rape of Lucrece”
• “The concurrent presence of both scholars' annotations in the same volume strengthens Neville's connection to the classical texts”
• “John Casson's discovery”
• “Digital facsimiles from Bavarian State Library”

4. Citations

• Feinstein, Ken. “Update on Henry Neville's Annotations at Audley End: Roman Antiquities.” kenfeinstein.blogspot.com, 16 Oct. 2020, https://kenfeinstein.blogspot.com/2020/10/update-on-henry-nevilles-annotations-at.html. Local preservation: blog_audley_end_part8_roman_antiquities_2020-10-16.md.
• Billingbear Book List Transcription, IMG_8164.png. Working local transcription: Billingbear_Book_List_Transcription.md. Page image: IMG_8164.png.
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Roman Antiquities. Trans. Earnest Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 1937-1950. LacusCurtius public text, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/home.html.
• audley_end_part1_annotations_at_audley_end.md, related earlier packet.
• play_coriolanus.md, related play packet.

5. Notes on Access

• This packet preserves a Ken Feinstein blog post and its local image set.
• Direct source-trail audit, 2026-04-28: no false XML witness was found, but the Audley End physical-copy and handwriting claims must remain blog/image-level until the Bavarian facsimile URL, Audley End catalog record, and annotation-page image trail are pinned down.
• The post names John Casson and the Bavarian State Library as sources, but the locally preserved export does not retain a stable external URL for the Bavarian facsimile.
• Web audit result: the public classical source can be controlled, and the Billingbear 1546 Dionysius line is now supported by working transcription plus PNG inspection. The key next step is still recovering the exact Bavarian facsimile and Audley End physical-volume reference.
• This packet revisits the same 1546 Dionysius volume already introduced in audley_end_part1_annotations_at_audley_end.md and should be treated as the fuller later update.
• The packet does not yet provide an English Heritage / Audley End catalog reference for the physical book.

6. Local Images