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CATALOGUE OF DR. BARGRAVE’S MUSEUM
This little booke, with what is contained in it, my cabinet of medals,
antiquities, rareties, and coynes, I give unto the Library of Christchurch, Canterbury, after my death. Apr. 29,
1676.
Dr. John Bargrave, Canon
RARA, ANTIQUA, ET NUMISMATA BARGRAVIANA,
Romae et aliis Italiae locis diversis, nempe 4 Itineribus, collecta, per me Johan. Bargravium, Generosum Cantianum, olim
Coll. Sti Petri
Cantabr. Socium, Bello civili, Anno°, per Rebelles expulsum,
restaurato vero Carolo 2° restauratum; S.
T. P. et canonicum Eccles. Metroplit. Cantuariensem, 1662.
I being 4 journeys from London to Rome and Naples, I found that where labourers digged either within or without
the city, or up and down the country, amongst the ruins of the old Roman temples, amphitheatres, theatres,
aqueducts, cirques, naumacheas, baths, &c., to lay the foundations of any
new churches, colleges, monasteries, nunneries, pallaces, or the like, amongst
those ruins those labourers often found great and small statues or images, --
some of marble, some of brass, -- of the old heathen gods and goddesses, and of
divers emperors and emperesses, and votes or vows presented to them. The Pope’s, and every Cardinal’s and
Prince’s pallaces are nobly adorned with them.
Those labourers likewise dig up, and the plowmen plow up, and those that work in
the vineyards dig up, great numbers of ancient Greek and Roman medals, some
bigger, some less, of gold, silver, and brass, of which there are great
collections amongst the antiquarians at Rome, and many learned books written upon them in all languages, with
the cuts of the coins, together with the rinverce, or other side of them, which
are very historical. My often seeing of them put me likewise into a humour of
curiosity, and making this collection insuing, which I have now, 1676, in a cabinet in my study at my
canonical house, Canterbury.
Brass Images, &c.
(1). Imprimis, an infant Romulus, in brass, in a sitting posture, digd out
of
Quirinus his
temple, on the Quirinal
hill, when those ruins were removed to make way for the
very fine, pretty, rich church or
chapel of Sta
Maria della Vittoria, built in memory of the
great victory the Emperor had
over the King of Bohemia near
Prague, where are hanged
up in triumph the banners, ensigns, and colours that were there
taken, whereof I remember was, mitres, crosses, the Pope's triple
crown, &c., all turned upside down, with this motto--Extirpentur.[*] This agrees with Raymond’s description, p.
105.
The little figure very ancient.
(2). Item, a very ancient Æsculapius, in brass -- the
medicinal god -- in a long robe, with his baton or knotty staff in
his hand, with a snake round about it, dugg out of the ruins of his
temple in the
island of the river of
Tyber, where now
standeth the hospital of St.
Bartholomey.
(3). A very ancient brass image of Hercules, one foot
broke off, with his club in his hand; esteemed for its good
features, and very like other marble statues and brass medals that I
have seen of Hercules, whereof
there is one amongst my drawers. This was dugg out of his temple near the Tyber, at the foot of the Aventine Hill at Rome -- still standing, almost
all, and made a chappell.
(4). Item, a brass flat piece, with the figure of a man drawing an ox by the horns; very ancient,
being dugg out of another temple of
Hercules
that stood upon the Aventine
Hill, on the place where he killed the thief Cacus, where now standeth a
church dedicated to St.
Stephen, which by its title beareth the memory of the old
story of Cacus, it being still
called Sto Stefano nel Caco.
(5).
Item, two old Roman sacrificing priests in their robes, and patina in hand:
the one a very
good one, -- if not ancient, yet cast from ancient;
the other
modern.
(6).
Hercules Juvenis,
with his club and lion's skin;
another of them;
both supposed modern.
(7). Item, a maymed Mercury, with one arm and one
legg; ancient, dugg out of his
temple.
(8). An ancient brass Dolphin, dedicated to
Venus, and dug out her temple. Nam Venus orta
mari.
(9). An handsome ancient busto (as called at Rome) of Augustus -- that is, the head and
shoulders -- in brass.
(10). Item, a Leda, with her swan; supposed to be modern, but
cast from ancient.
(11). A flat brass piece, of several Cupidons scaring one another with a vizard; being a
bachanalia piece, dugg out of the Temple of Bacchus.
(12). A little key, dug out of the Temple of the
Moon.
(13). Item, a brass wreathed snake, in
circles, having a head at both ends; dedicated to Eternity.
(14). Item, a flat piece of brass, with the rapture of Proserpine by a Centaure.
(15). The knuckles of the legg bone of mutton, which we call a cockal, with which children use to play; such
an one dugg out of the ruins, in brass, that sheweth the Romans used them in games called
Ludi
talarii.
(16). The River of Tyber,
carved on a piece of coral;
ancient.
(17). Two
Priapisms, in brass, being votes or
offerings to that absurd heathen deity.... modern, from
ancient.
(18). A Roman
Ægle, in brass; modern.
(19). A piece of a kind of jasper stone,
almost like a heart, polished, being a piece of that famous
obelisk
that now standeth in the chiefest place of Rome, called Piazza Navona, olim
Circus Agonalis, set up there on a most magnificent
fabrick, like a rock, out of which floweth 4 fountains, very large,
signifying by the figures of colossean statues of the 4 rivers of
Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, by the hand of Cavalier Bernino, that famous architect, my neighbour
and friendly acquaintance, -- Pope
Innocent the 10th being at that vast expense.
When I was at Rome, 1646, this obelisk lay broken in 4 or 5 pieces,
with the fall of it, in the Circle of
the
Emperor Caralla
Emperor Caracalla.[*]It is now called the Circus of Maxentius, or of his son Romulus.
near
St. Sebastian
and
Metella's Tomb, now a
noble antiquity, and called
Capo di Bove.
I took another stone, and with it broke off of the butt end of it this
piece and as much more, and had this polished. The obelisk, as it lay
then and as it is now, is full of Egyptian hyeroglifficks, of which Father Kercherius, that eminent Jesuit, and of my
acquaintance, hath writt a large folio. All the other guglios,[*]The
word is properly not guglio, but guglia. or
obeliscs, at Rome seem to be all of
the same sort of stone, and are stupendious to imagine how they could
possibly be hewn in that bigness and hight out of any rock, though it
may be they might afterward be hewn into that pyramidical proportion and
shape that they now bear. All full of Egyptian hyroglificks, that largest of all before St. Peter at the Vatican excepted, which is one intyre precious
stone -- at least, better than marble, and I think (by my piece) a
jasper; and yet is esteemed to be higher by 3 or 4 foot than the maypole in the Strand at London. Another is dexterously placed
on the Via Flaminia, at the Porto dell Populo, in a poynt to be
seen from 3 of the great streets of Rome. Another dispute is, how it was possible to transport
so vastly weighty things from Egypt
to Rome as one of those stones are,
they having then no such ships as we have now, their byremes and
tryremes being but pittiful boats, yet sufficient to make them masters
of the seas in those times. There are several treatises on this subject;
and the most probable that I find is, that they were brought upon warffs
or raffts of many pines and firs, fastened by art together, and, the
stones being laid upon them, they, with a stearer or 2 or 3 at the end
of those raffts, came terra, terra,
terra (as the Italians
term it) along the coast, or, at least, from promontory to promontory,
until they came to Ostia, and so
10 miles up the Tyber to Rome. Many long and large warfes or
rafts of these fir and pine trees I have found troublesome to our boats
on the Danube, the Rone or Rhodanus, on the Rhine, and Elve, down which rivers an infinite abundance of
that tymber passeth daily thus fastened together, and on some of them
they build 2 or 3 little hutts or cabans and dress their meat. Thus as
to these pyramids' transport.
Another of these vast stones layeth all along full of hyerogliphics, in
that which is now
Prince Ludovicio's,
formerly
Sallust's garden.[*]This
is now erected in front of the church of Sta. Trinita de’ Monti.
And, to see how Rome layeth
under its own ashes, one walketh in the streets over one of these famous
Egyptian obelisks every day, in
a little by passage of a narrow descent that is between Antonina's
famous piller and the Rotunda. I could go directly to it if I were
there, but I have forgotten the name of the place. There one day an
antiquarian had me down a poor man’s cellar, and there showed me 4 or
five yards of one of these pyramids.[*] This now stands on the Monte Citorio.
How far it runneth under ground they know not. It was full of
hieroglyphics, and it pittied me to see how the stone was cut and
mangled for the convenience to set wine vessels on it. The poor man
getteth his rent by showing of it to strangers that are curious -- as I
confess I always was, and would wish every gentleman traveller to be
so.
(20). Item,
two large loadstones,
one armed with steel, in a black velvet case, which I
have
hanging in my study upon a piece of silk, in a
perpendicular thread, when it standeth still, the north point
hangeth still due north; by which I found that our cathedral of
Christ Church, Canterbury, doth not stand due
east and west, but the east end is at the least 2 poynts of the
compass too much to the southward. Now, where it is
generally received that the loadstone draweth iron to it, by this
perpendicular posture of the stone upon a thread, and putting a key
or any other piece of iron to it, the iron draweth the loadstone
quite round, as far off as you please, so that it seemeth there is
no compulsion on either side, but a mutual reciprocal compliance
between them both, which we are fain to call sympathy.
Now, on the
other side, I have in my cabinet another triangular, unequilateral,
bumped-up, large loadstone that weigheth almost half a pound, which
is a rude thing to look on, but of good value. This is unarmed, but
it is strange to see how great an antipathy there is between the
north point of this stone and the other that hangeth perpendicular
in the velvet bagg, this making that (at a great distance) fly from
it with violence as often round as you please; and, on the other
side, there is a great sympathy between the south point of the one
stone and the north point of the other. For this seemeth strange to
me, that every loadstone, be it in pieces bigger or less, have still
their north and south point, according to the two poles axill of the
world. With the hidden qualities of these 2 stones I used sometimes
to make sport with young gentry in telling them their fortunes,
&c. as if there had been an intelligence between them and me –
“If so and so, then do so and so.” And truly it is wonderful to me
to think that it was the loadstone that found out America and the Straights of Megallan, and by virtue of which several
nations, especially
England, have almost found out
the north-west passage of the
West Indies, and so to go a
much shorter cut from England by
the West Indies to the East.
And if the Terra Incognita, or the fifth part of the unknown world,
be ever found out, it must be done by virtue of the
loadstone.
(21). Item, a piece of a heavy mineral stone, that looketh like a loadstone, but hath no such
attractive virtue; but at Hall, near Insprugg in
Tiroll, among the hearts
of the Alps, I had the
curiosity to be droven in a wheelbarrow almost 2 miles under ground,
to see the labourers there in the gold and silver mines belonging to
the Archduke of that country.
It was horrid to go thither, and more horrid to see, but they told
us the Emperor and the Empress, and all the royal family of the
house of Austria use out of
curiosity to go thither. I and my companion having on canvass frocks
to keep us from the wet and filth, we having a mountain of the Alps 3 or 4 mile high over our
heads, and a torrent of water under us, and a bridge of boards most
of the way. When we came into the vast high vaults, where hundreds
and hundreds of men or Vulcans were at work, one of the overseers (a
genteel person), out of courtesy, would have let us see their art by
blowing up a part of the mine by gunpowder; but we durst not venture
it. Another great mystery to me was, that I saw in the several high
vaults, about the middle, a coggell of wood hanging in a small rope;
and I asking wherefore those bastons or pieces of wood hung there, I
wondered the more they told me, that, as the loadstone in the iron
mines directed to the veins of iron, so these coggells of wood
directed them to the veins of gold and silver; and they seemed to be
loth to tell us what sort of wood it was, but at
lenght
length we were told (whether truly or no I know not), that it was
of a ground ash.
This stone is a piece of the one they digg out of those mines, out of
which, by the force of fire, is extracted the silver and the gould,
being separated from the dross, which is there cast up and down into
great hills near the places where the fornices for melting
are.
(22). Ten miles, almost, round about Rome, under the vineyards and
cornfields, are hollow caves, streets, rooms, chappells, finely
paynted, &., which is called Rome
underground, or the Catacombe, wherein to the poor
Christians in the times of persecution fledd to hide themselves, to
perform the Christian duties of preaching and prayer and sacraments.
And some of these underground streets were for their burials, -- not
on the flat, as we bury on the ground, but the corps were at their
lenght
length immuralld in theca's, or, as it were, in hollow shelves dug into
the wall on both sides; and it is a horrid place to go to, and
dangerous, for fear of damps, for which we had little bottles of
essences and spirits to put to our noses, and tynder purses (as the
mode is), with flint, steel, and match, to lighten our torches and
candles when they went out. My curiosity held me there about 3 hours
at one time in one of these cymeteries; I going down a pair of
stayre, and so walked some streets in Rome underground, a second story deep, until we came to
water, which made us return. But the best and freest from danger,
and easiest to be seen, are those at St. Agnese, out of the Porta St. Agnese, where in half an hour I came to a
street that I could tell 10 stories of corps high; and so all along,
about 30 or 40 in
lenght
length. I and other gentlemen with me observed that, though there
were divers epitaphs and writings, with Ρo,
Χto, Ρo, Xo,
with a turtle dove and an olive branch in
its beack, and a palm branch, with Po
✝o, yet, I taking all along on the one side, and my
companions on the other, we could meete with never an Orate pro anima -- praying
for the souls of the dead not being then known, in the primitive
times, there being no such thing as purgatory then known in the
world, -- that being of a later invention, to bring a vast revenue
to the Pope or Camera Apostolica.
From this Rome underground I brought a very fair small ancient lamp, and a small bottle with
a long neck -- both of them of a very fine red earth;
which, by Dr. Plott, I sent as
a present to the cabinet of Oxford
Library.
One other earthen lamp, and a glass bottle with
such a long neck, and a broken
one
in two pieces, I have in my cabinet. These bottles
are called lachrymatorij, or tear-bottles, because the friends and
relations of the defunct were in ancient time accustomed at the funeral
to carry each of them a lachrymatorio in his hand, to save his tears
that he shed for his deceased friend, and then leave those bottles
behind them with the immuralld corps. David seemeth to have allusion to this ancient custom when
he saith, Psalm 56, 8, "Thou hast put
my tears into thy bottle."
(23). Another thin piece of jasper stone,
unpollished, it being sawn off of that piece of the guglio, pyramid, or
obelisc that standeth now in the Piazza Navona at Rome; of which I have spoken at large, page the
7, &c., where you may be
satisfied about those wonderful obeliscs.
(24). Paste antiche Romane
incognite, -- several
pieces of a flat ancient Roman
paste (as they term it) unknown, -- i. e. that the art of it is lost
or forgotten. These several pieces I pict up amongst the
antiquarians. They are of all sorts of colours, as you may see where
they are broken. They are on the outside rude and rough, but, being
polished, it looks like a precious stone, as you may see by several
small pieces of them that I caused to be polished, and cut in the
figure of a heart. One green, with spots like stars; the other a
plain blew. They seem to be a kind of glass, or rather of that
material of which enamell is made; but whichsoever the matter is I
know not. But they put an esteem upon them, and I
was made pay dear for
thēthem.
(25). Small cinders and pummy stones of
Mont Aetna, in
Sicily, where I never was;
but I had them from my Lord of
Winchelsy, my noble friend, who hath bin
there.
(26). Several pieces of cinders, pummystone,
and ashes of the
Mount Vesuvius, near
Naples, which was
4 times the poynt of my reflection, -- I facing about for England from the topp, or crater,
or voragine (as they
term it) of that mountain; of which I have spoken at large in my
Itinerario
d’Italia.[*] See the
Introduction to this volume. Raymond says,
“This mountain was the ultima meta of our
voyage to Naples.” (p. 163.)
(27). Several rude pieces
of mountain chrystall, as they grow
sexanguler always among the Alps; amongst which there is one is a very clear,
handsome, elegant piece, something longer than my middle finger, 4
or 5 inches compass, sexangular, inaequilateral, cylindrical,
pyramidical.[*] The same article is described on a
separate paper as “a cristall as it naturally groweth,
sexangular, which I met with on the Penine Alps, on the Sempronian Mount, now called Mount
Samplon.” Sir
Henry Wotton, among his bequests, mentions “a
piece of crystall, sexangular (as they grow all), grasping
divers things within it, which I bought among the Rhaetian Alps, in the
very place where it grew.” (Walton’s Lives,
109, ed. Oxf.
1824.) For the passage of the Simplon,
as it was in those days, see Raymond, p.
248.
This I met with amongst the Rhaetian Alps. One would wonder that nature should so
counterfett art. There is no man but seeth it but would veryly
believe that by tools and art it had binn put into that figure. I
remember that the Montecolian man that sold it me told me that he
ventured his life to clamber the rocks to gett it. Where it grew I
cannot say; but where it was, it was covered, he said, with long
sedgy grass growing about it, under the dripp of an higher rock,
where the snow continually melteth and droppeth; and so all the
mountayn chrystall is increased ab extra by an external addition, and groweth not
from any rock.
(28). Item, a small gold Salerno
ring, written on the outside, not like a
posey in the inside, but on the out—Bene scripsisti de ME, Thoma. The story
of it is, that Thomas
Aquinas, being at Salerno, and in earnest in a church before a certain
image there of the blessed Virgin
Mary, his earnest devotion carried him so far as to ask
her whether she liked all that he had writ of her, as being free
from original sin, the Queen of
Heaven, &t.; and intreated her to give him some token
of her acceptance of his indeavours in the writing so much in her
behalf. Upon which the image opened its lipps, and said, Bene scripsisti de ME,
Thoma.
Salerno layeth a little beyond Naples, on the Mediterranean sea; and the goldsmiths of the
place, for their profit, make thousands of these rings, and then have
them touch that image which spake. And no marchant or stranger that
cometh thither but buyeth of these rings for presents and tokens. An
English marchant gave me this at
Naples. The Schola Salernitana was anciently famous for
physicians.
(29). Item, a gold ring, with the cutt of an
ancient Graecian head on a
garnet stone set in it. An° 1650, being the year of jubilee, I had
the honour to conduct the Earl of
Chesterfield, Phillip
Lord Stanhop, into Italy; and at Rome
he presented me with this stone, telling me that it was sold him not
only for a Graecian head, but
for Aristotle’s. I sett it in
gold at Rome, as the jeweller
advised me, in that transparent posture as it now hath, that so, the
stone being pelluced, the head is much the plainer to be seen both
ways. The side next to the finger will soil, and must sometimes be
cleaned. The cutt is certainly a very very ancient intaglio, (as they use to
call such cutts at Rome),
melting away the g in the pronunciation, and pronouncing it almost
with a ll—intallia.
(30). It.,Confetti di Tivoli, a box full of sugar plums of
the town of old Tybur, now
called Tivoli. They seem to be
so like sugar plums that they will deceive any man that only seeth
them, especially when the counterfeit amand and muske comfeits, made
out of the same materials, are mixed amongst them. But the things
themselves are nothing but the gravel or sand of the river Teverone, that runneth by Tyvoly (10 miles from Rome), and entreth into the river of Tybur. The plumms are of
a chauchy or brimstony matter.
(31). Some of the floore of brimstone from
that horrid sulfurious mountain at the other side of Naples called Sulfaterra, near Puteoly, now called Puzzuolo.
(32.) A bow ring of Persia, cutt out of an agate stone, which must
be worn on the right thumb, with poynt upward. With this they draw
at ease the strongest bow, and then, letting the bent thumb go, the
arrow hath the greater violence.
(33). Item, Aëtites, Lapis
Aquilaris, or the eagle stone,
which I bought of an Armenian
at Rome. They differ sometimes
in colour. This is a kind of a rough, dark, sandy colour, and about
the bigness of a good wallnut. It is rare, and
of good value, because of its excellent qualities and use, which is,
by applying it to childbearing women, and to keep them from
miscarriages.[*] Some directions for the use of the stone
are here omitted.
. . . . It is so useful that my wife can seldom keep it at
home, and therefore she hath sewed the strings to the knitt purse in
which the stone is, for the convenience of the tying of it to the
patient on occasion; and hath a box she hath, to put the purse and
stone in. It were fitt that either the dean’s or vice-dean’s wife
(if they be marryed men) should have this stone in their custody for
the public good as to neighbourhood; but still, that they have a
great care into whose hand it be committed, and that the midwives
have a care of it, so that it still be the Cathedral Church’s stone.
(34). A very artificial anatomy of a human eye, with all its films or tunicles, by way of turnery in
ivory and horn; together with the optick nerve which runneth into
the brain, from which nerve the eye receiveth all its several
motions. This excellent piece of art hath, when it is opened,
fourteen pieces in it; but are, indeed, but a little more parcels in
themselves than half so many. When you take them in sunder, the best
way to keep them in order is to lay them all in a row, and then you
shall find that the first piece and the last are in nature but one
tunicle, and by art two, if you join them together; each half (but
one) hath its correspondent—the corneus with the corneus, the
two black ones likewise the same, and so the rest. The little apple
of it also is included in two half tunicles. The usual way of
anatomizing an eye, longways, by turning the films flat over one
another, could not be so visibly imitated by art; but this, or
roundway, was the invention of the College of Physicians at Padoüa, where an artist of High Germany imployed his skill in turning according to
these doctors’ orders, and at length produced this excellent piece
of art—this anatomy of the human eye. I have one also of an oxes eye, but that is very rude, gross, and
not exact. I bought this eye at Venice of a High
Dutch turner, and, for the proof of it, I went a double
share in two anatomies, of a man’s body and a woman’s, chiefly for
this eye’s sake, and it was found to be exact.
(35). Item, a fair large toadstool or
mushroom of stone, very weighty, which is not a mushroom petrified,
but grew always a stone, in this shape and figure. I bought it of an
Armenian at Venice, who had many more of them
to sell, of several sorts of colours and bigness, and divers other
stones of pretty forms and figures.
(36). Stylus
Romanus. The
antiquarian that sold it me
avowed it to be truly ancient; but thousands may daily be made, this
being but a piece of steel about the
lenght
length of one’s middle finger, like a bodkin, with a blunt point
at one end and a flat on the other end, the edge rabated on both
sides, so that with the one end one may make an impression upon
paper or the bark of trees, and with the other end one may easily
rub out or make smooth what had been written. So that vertere stylum was as much
as to recant of such and such things as he had formerly
written.
(37). Item, a large piece of sea-horse tooth, said to be good against poison, next to an unicorn’s
horn.
(38). Lusus
Naturae, a kind of a periwinkle’s shell,[*] This was, of course, a fossil shell.
and divers other fashion
stone shells, which I had out of the
curiosities of art and nature at Douay[*] The name of this place ought to be written
Doué.
(not that in Flanders),
3 or 4 leagues off from Saulmur, or the river
Loyre, in France,
where there is an ancient amphitheater.
(39). A pretty little padlock
and key of guilt
mettle, and a piece of coral, given me by a nunn, --
whose guifts are commonly costly, for you must return the
double.
(40). Item, a pretty kind of nun’s work purse, made of greenish silk, and a carved work mother of
pearls shell, presented me likewise by a nun, for which I paid for
double, according to custom.
(41). Item, a pair of
common Italian
cards, which have, instead of our 4
sorts, 4 other names—(1) Denari, (2) Coppe, (3) Spade, (4) Bastoni—money, cups, fauchions or swords, and
clubbs (or rather cogils); and, having the same number with ours,
one may play all the English
games with them, as well as the Italian.
(42). Item, Monsieur
Demarests’[*] Jean Desmarets, for whom see
Bayle, x, 236, seqq. ed. Paris,
1820; or Nouv.
Biographie Générale.
learned and ingenious pack of cards, called Jeu d’
Armoire de l’Europe, composed, as I was told in France, upon this occasion. Cardinal Mazarine being in
place of a guardian to the now reigning King of France,
in his minority, (Louis XIVth,) and
the king being grown up to the
age of years in which he took delight to play at cards, he, that the
king, at his playing of
cards, might also learn something else of worth and knowledge in his
very play, put this virtuoso, Monsr Desmarests, to invent a
pair of cards that might have that effect; upon which he invented
these cards, which, having the ordinary marks of hearts, clubs,
spades, and diamonds, he maketh hearts to be France, and the king to be king of hearts; clubs to be Italy, and all its principalities;
spades to be the northern parts,—Germany, England,
Denmark, Sweden, &c.; and diamonds to be Spain, Portugall, and all their territories. This
done, when the king went to
play at cards, a fair mapp of Europe was to be laid upon the carpet, and, when the
cards were dealt unto the king, he was not to play his game at cards until he was
first instructed in blazonry, geography, and history of this or that
card he had in his hand,—blazoning the arms as it is upon
each card; then, to find out the place in the mapp of Europe that the card signified;
and, lastly, to tell some little history of that place; and then, to
play the ordinary game. So that the king learned armory, geography, and history, all at
playing of cards, there being a little book of Mr. Desmarests, which belong to this pack of
cards, to teach his majesty
how to use them. It is in French, with my cards.
What foundation this knowledge of the king’s may have bin[*] This word seems
superfluous.
layde as to his present wars, I know not; but now, l’espé á la maine (his sword
in his hand), Lorraine is the 3 of
hearts, the 17 provinces of the Low
Countries is the 3 of spades, the Elect Palatine is the 6 of spades, the canton of
the Swizzer is the 2 of spades,
Catalonia is the 4 of
diamonds, &c., and the terrible game of war goeth on. It had binn
happier for Europe that he had never
learned this Jeu d’ Armoires than that it should
have bin the occasion of his shedding so much blood. However, the king
of spades, the Emperor and his northern allies, maintain the game
against the king of hearts; and what card will be trump we know not at
the end.
(43). Item, the skin,
head,
and legs
of a cameleon, perfumed and stuffed. The creature was given me alive
in Africa, and it liveth (not by
the air, as the report goeth, but) by flies chiefly, as the Moores
taught me how to feed it in this manner, by laying in the cage, or
sometimes out of the cage in which I kept it, upon a paper some
sugar and sweetmeats, which allureth the flies to come to it. The
creature hath in its gorge or gola a toung
that lieth 4 dobled, with a small fibulus button at the end of it,
which hath on it a viscous matter. So soon as it seeth the flies at
the sweetmeats it darteth forth that toung at a great distance, and
with the viscous matter pulleth in the fly to her mouth, and eateth
it; and so it will do many, one after the other, so that while we
sailed homewards all along the Africa shore, and came out of the Mediterranean Sea by the Streights of Gibralter into the Atlantick Ocean, and then turning
northward by Spain and Portugall—all that time (I
say) that we were in those hot and southerly climates, although it
was in January 1662, there
were store of flies, and the creature fed on them heartily, and
lived well. But as we sailed homeward into the more cold and
northern climates, as the flies failed us, so that decayed, and at
lenght
length
for want of flies it died; and I had the chirurgeon of the
shipp embalm it, and put the skin as you see it.
It seemeth to be a kind of lizard, but is as slow in pace as a tortes,
winding its tail about the sticks of the cage, to help and secure its
gradations. The ribs and the back are boned and scaled like fish.
Although the story of its living by the air be fabulous, yet the other
story of its changing itself into all colours is very true, as I have
seen this of all manner of colours, like silk, and sometimes changeable
colours, as the sun happened to shine upon it; and sometimes I have seen
it coal-black. But the story is false that it hath a pellucid body, like
cristal, and so it will be the colour of scarlet or any other cloth that
you lay it upon. No, no such thing; but one way to make it change its
colours was to anger it, and put it into a passion, by touching of it
with a stick or a bodkin, or the like. Then it would fetch great
breaths, many one after another, by which it made itself swell very
much, and in its swellings out came the colours of all sorts, which
changed as it was more or less provoked to anger. And when the passion
was over, it would look as pale as a clout. It hath no eyelids, and
therefore never winketh; but when it sleepeth, the ball of the eye being
as round as round can be, it turneth that ball quite round, the inside
outward, and so sleepeth. Matthiolus on Dioscorides sayth that it
layeth eggs as a tortes doth, and is bred of those eggs.
(44). Item, the finger of a Frenchman, which I brought from
Tholouse, the capital of
Languedoc, in France. The occasion this: there
is, amongst others, a great monastery of Franciscans, with a very
fair large church and cloisters, the earth of which place is
different from all others in this, that all the dead men and women’s
corps that are buried there turn not into putryfaction and
corruption, and so into earth, as in all other places; but, on the
contrary, the bodies that are buried there in the space of 2 years
are found in the posture that they were laid into the grave, dried
into a kind of momy, being all entire and whole, dried to almost
skin and bone,—the nerves or sinews and tendons stiffly
holding all the body together, that you may take it and place it
standing upright against a wall. And in the vaults whither these
dried corps are removed there are abundance of them, like so many
fagotts, and as stiff and strong. Among which they shewed us the
corps of a souldier, that died by the wound of a stabb with a dagger
in his breast, upon the orifice of which one of his hands lay flatt,
and when they pulled away the hand, the wound was plainly seen; but
let the hand go, and it returned to its place with force, as if it
had a resort or spring to force it to its proper place. I pulled the
hand away several times, and the nerves and tendons were so strong
that the hand returned with a lusty clap upon the wound. There
likewise they shewed us the corps of a physician (of their
acquaintance), which, when they put a clean piece of paper into one
hand and a pen into the other, when he stood in such a posture as if
he had seriously been a-writing a dose or prescription. The monks
told us that in one vault the principals of their order stood all in
a row, in the habit of the order, according to their seniority. They
proffered me the whole body of a little child, which I should out of
curiosity have accepted of, if I had then been homeward bound; but I
was then outward bound for the grand tour of France (or circle, as they call it), and so
again into Italy.
(45, 46). Item, two
cylinders,
with their wooden boxes,—the
one of steel, which is most
usual in England;
the other of
foyled isinglass, which I met with often in High Germany, from whence I brought this. The
isinglass having a foyle of quicksilver and pewter put behind it,
like a lookingglass, will afterward easily bend to the cylindrical
piece of wood that you would fasten it to, and rendereth an
excellent lustre, better than the steel. There are several uses of
them in opticks. I used them with some several pictures, which are
artificially painted like the greatest confusion of irregular lines
and lineaments that may be. But, a cylinder being placed upon the
square fitted for its pedestal, all the reflections of that
seemingly confused work meet in the cylinder, and make a
well-shaped, very handsome picture, in its due points and
proportions. As to one of these cylinders belongeth, from the
confusion on the plain, in the cylinder, an emperor on horseback on
a white horse (which I brought from Rome, but they may be had in England).
The other, that I out of curiosity used to imploy, was in a very pretty
experiment that I learned at Nurimberg and Augsberg,
in High Germany, in making, by
reflection of the sun’s beam, as fair a rainbow as ever was seen in the
sky, to be seen in a dark room—the darker the better—which
I have done hundreth of times before many of quality, who have taken
delight to see it. It is best done where there are close wooden shuts to
the windows. It is done thus: the room being made very dark, there must
be left only an auger hole, where the sunbeam may come clearly in
through the shut,—the kesment being taken away, or a pannel of
glass broken for the purpose, that the sun may be clear. Then lay to
that hole a common prism or triangular artificial crystal, that casteth
all kind of colours; the sun, without it, casteth through the hole a
round spot of light, either upon the next wall, or on the floor; then
that triangular crystal, being put to the hole, turneth that sunbeam
into a round spot of divers glorious colours; then put a couple of small
nails for the prism to rest upon, and keep that glorious spot; which
done, take a cylinder, and hold it about a foot distance from the
coloured spot, full in the sunbeam, or at what distance you find most
convenient, and that will cast the reflections of that spot all round
about the dark room, on the seeling and walls, in as perfectly various
colours as ever you saw the rainbow. Upon which there happened a pretty
passage to me once, which happened at Utrecht, which was this: there lived one Myn Here Johnson,[*] Cornelius Jansen “in 1636 and the next following years
resided with Sir Arnold
Braems, a Flemish
merchant at Bridge
[Place], near Canterbury.” (Dallaway’s note in Walpole’s Anecdotes
of Painting in England, ii. 10, Lond. 1828.) His
portrait of Dean Bargrave
is in the Deanery at Canterbury, and was lent for the National Portrait
Exhibition of 1866.
an extraordinary eminent painter, of my former acquaintance in
England. I showed him this
artificial rainbow; he asked me how long I could keep it; I told him
that I could keep it 2 or 3 hours: “Then," saith he, “I will send for my
pallat of coulors, and draw it, for I have binn after endeavouring to
draw one in the fields, but it vanished before I could finish it.” Upon
which I laughed. He asked me why I laughed; I told him that he should
see anon why I laughed, but assured him that I could keep the rainbow 2
or 3 hours; upon which he sent a servant for his pallat of coulors, and,
being come, he tempered them to his purpose in the light. Then I
darkened the room, but he could not see to paint, at which I laughed
again, and I told him his error, which was, that he could not see to
paint in the dark, and that I could not keep the rainbow in the light,
at which he laughed also heartily, and he missed his design.
Item, a picture in a frame, of confused work; but a cylinder being
placed on the square for its pedestal, there you shall see an
emperor on horseback, and, if you moove your head up and down, the
horse will seem to trott.
(48), An optick instrument of wood, turned
round, and hollow within, and blacked, which serveth instead of a
dark room; the small optick glass at the little end casting the
shadows or figures and coulors of all outward objects upon a piece
of clean paper fastened in with a hoop at the great end, with a
covering over it, having a round hole in the middle, through which
you may see all the reflections of the outward object as plain as
may be; so that one may design them or paint them on the paper as
they are represented, reversed, or their heels upward, and then,
taking the paper off, it may be turned to the object’s right
posture, and not upside down. But the sun must shine clear upon the
outward objects when they are to be fully and well represented,
otherwise they are but dull. If the paper be very clean, and oyled
over with good oyle, the species and colours are more perfect. The
objects that are in motion, and those various, look the prettiest on
the paper. As I happened to see it set against a large market place
at Vienna, in Austria (the Emperor’s court),
where I bought it, the busy people in the market, and all their
several coloured clothes, both of men and women, made me stand still
and wonder what it meant. I went by the shop several times on
purpose to see it, and at last I went into the shop and bought it,
the owner showing me the use of it. With this instrument you may see
the jackdaws fly about Bell Harry steeple,[*]
i. e. the central
tower of Canterbury
Cathedral.
when the sun shines, in any room of your house that hath a
window that way.
(49). Item, a larger circular optick glass,
about 4 inches diameter, made almost for the same purpose with the
former, to receive outward specieses into a dark room; only this
glass representeth them 4 times as bigg as the other, and at a much
farther distance, which must be always observed as to the reception
of the specieses. As this glass in a dark
room, being placed to the hole, will render the reflexed species of
the outward object full and large at a good distance, on a sheet of
paper, or a fine napkin, or a large tablecloth, all the houses,
windows, chimnies, trees, steeples, &c. that the sun shineth
upon, and may be seen through the oager,[*]
i. e. auger.
all will be fairly represented on that paper or tablecloth or
napkin.
I bought this glass of Myn Here
Westleius, an eminent man for optics at Nurenburg, and it cost me 3 pistolls, which is
about 50s
English. The gentleman spoke
bitterly to me against Father
Kercherius, a Jesuit at Rome (of my acquaintance), saying that it had cost him above
a thousand pounds to put his optic speculations in practice, but he
found his principles false, and shewed me a great basket of glasses of
his failings. He shewed me wonderful strange glasses, some oval, some
round, some square, some convex, some concave, which produced strange
deceptions of the sight, unspeakable. As I well remember, when I put
forth my hand to one glass, there came an arm and a hand out of the
glass, as long as mine; and when our hands met, I seemingly could put
finger to finger, palm to palm; and when I went to clasp hands together,
I grasped nothing but air. Then, drawing my sword, and at a farther
distance thrusting the point towards the glass, out from the glass came
a sword and an arm, as to my sight, into the room; and we met, point to
point, two or 3 paces from the wall, into the chamber which was strange
to me; and at
lenght
length
he made my whole person seemingly to come out of the glass
into the room to meet me.
Another large glass he had, which, being hanged at one side of the room,
and a fair perspective picture of the inside of a church, with its
arches and pillars, hanged at the other, at a due distance, the species
do so strangely come out from the glass that you seem to be walking in a
church. Remove that picture, and place in its room a fair garden, with
oranges and lemon trees, and fountains and walks, &c., and by the
reflex of that glass, in the middest of the room, one seemeth to walk in
a garden, and so in a grove, &c. For these glasses he asked me, for
one 200, for the other 150, pistolls; and I think I should have given
him his money, if my quality and purse had had a proportion suitable for
such a purchase.
(50). Item, another optick glass, sowed into
a piece of paceboard, to hang at a hole in a dark room, to the same
purpose as the former.
(51). Westleius, of Neurenburg in High Germany, his optick wooden eye, which is only to set in the light into a
darkened room, for the same use as formerly, only, as the sun
removeth, so the wooden eye may be turned about to the sun, to keep
the beams the longer on the optick glass.
(52). Item, a rare antiquity and curiosity:
two
Chinese
books, in quarto, printed in the Chyna language upon I know not
what material,—I think either silk, or rather on the barks of
trees,[*] It is the ordinary Chinese paper.
—every leaf being double, and having in every page an
ill-favoured design or drauft of picture. They were left me as a
legacy and curiosity by one that had formerly binn my fellow
traveller.
(53). Item, some shells of the strange
dieülle musell, bred in the heart of a stone. Thus one, or rather
several, times at Rochell I
walked out to the sea-side near the Dige, where I met with fellows
who with beetles and axes and wedges were by the sea-side, as the
tide went off, a cleaving of great stones. I asked them what they
were doing and what they meant to cleave those stones. Their answer
was, that they worked for their living, and that they were searching
for dieüles, that is, for a sort of muscel shell-fish in those
stones. I stood by, and saw then that, as the stone cleft, they
found 1, 2, 3, or 4, some bigger some lesser. I asked them whether
that they were good to eat. With that they ate them raw, as one doth
an oyster, and I found them good meat, and afterwards sent them to
our lodgings; and I saw them several times in the market to be sold,
being very good well-relished fish. The stones from which they are
taken are full of holes, according to their proportion, some bigg
some lesser.
(54). Item, an Indian tobacco
pipe of leather to wind about one's arm,
with a wooden pipe at the end of it, to be cleaned by washing
it.
(55). Several pairs of horns of the wild mountain goats which the High Dutch call gemps, the Italians
camuchi, the French
shammois, from whence
we have that leather. I had them amongst the Alps, the people telling me strange stories
of the creature, what strange leaps they would take amongst the
crags of the rocks, and how, to break a fall, they will hang by the
horns, and, when they have taken breath, they unhook themselves and
take another leap at a venture, and sometimes they will have great
falls without any hurt, they still lighting upon their horns. Some
of these horns are polished, and serve for several
uses.
(56). A prohibited Venetian
dark lanthorn, with a concave piece of steel
at the back of the inside, which must be always kept very bright,
and a convex half-globe of a crystaline glass on the outside; then a
piece of wax candle being put in between them, the reverberation of
the light from the steel through the crystal sendeth forth such a
radiant light in a dark night that you may read anything at a great
distance. It hath bin a murthering instrument with a pocket pistol
and a poisoned stiletto—the revengeful party meeting and
watching his adversary in the streets, on a sudden casteth such a
dazeling brightness in his eye that he is astonished, whilst the
other useth his instruments to kill him.
(57). Item, a Venetian
stiletto poisoned without poison; that is, it
is as bad as poisoned by reason that these oval little holes worked
on the body of the steel of the stiletto maketh it give an uncurable
wound, by reason that a point or tent, with its oils, balsalms, or
otherwise curing salves, cannot reach the inward scars and
inequalities of the dagger’s hollow figures, and so it is impossible
to cure such a wound.
(58). Item, a cravat, a shass or girdle, and a small pair of gaiters of curious work, by the inhabitants of
the north-west (whether passage or no
passage) of America,
in the West Indies, made of
porcupine quills very artificiously. In Italy there are butchers’ shops particularly for
venison, in which shops are every week hanged up store of these
porcupines; but we foreigners did not much approve of the meat. The
cravat, &c., with divers other things, were sent me by one Mr. Tymothy Couley, now a
marchant in London, by way of
gratuity, he being one of the 162 slaves that I redeemed from Argeers, when I went thither by
King Charles 2 commission
and 10,000lb of hierarchical money, 1662, for that purpose. Amongst
the chains of the redeemed I kept only this man’s, which I have now
by me, and intend to have it hanged up over my grave in
memorandum.
(59). Item, a pair of red leather pleyted buskins and 2 pairs of sleepers, with iron on the soles,
such as the great ones—the Bashaes, the Agaàs, the
Yabashawes, and Bulgabashaes—wear at Argeers.
(60). The picture in little of Shaban Agaà il Grand d' Algeers, or the King
of Argeers, to whom I delivered
his Maties
(Charles II.) credential letter, and with whom I had
chiefly to do in points of difficulty, though I bought slave by
slave from each particular Turkish patron, as one buyeth horses in Smithfield. A poor painter, an
Italian slave, stood
privately to draw me this picture at several times when I had
audience of Shaban Agaà. It
is ill work, but the clothes and mode is like him, as he (and as all
the country doeth,) sat cross-legged on a Turkey carpet on a bench, I sitting at the
turning of the bench by him, with my hat on, in my clerical habit; I
finding him mostly very courteous. But in a 500lb business, that he would have had me pay for slaves that
had made their escape, we were both very hot, and had like to have
broken the peace, but at
lenght
length
my reasons prevailed. But at the end of all, when all the
slaves were redeemed and sent on board his Maties man-of-war that
attended us, it was a thousand to one but that the peace between us
had binn broken, and I and my fellow commissioner, Dr. Selleck, had bin made
slaves. It was but a greine in a pair of golden scales, whether aye
or no—they having that night brought in an Englishman as a prize; but by God’s blessing, and much
difficulty, I played my part so well with threatening, that we got
off. But poor consul Browne
paid for it; for we were no sooner gone from their coasts but they
broke the peace, and took all the English as formerly.
This Mr. Browne, the consul, went
over in the same man-of-war with us, and we dieted and lay at his house.
He had formerly lived long among them, and had their Lingua Franca perfectly.
However, we were no sooner gone but they seized on all he had, shaved
his head, and made him a slave, where he helped to draw timber and
stones to a fortification, receiving so many blows a day with a bull’s
nerve, until he was beaten to death, and his body cast out upon a
dunghill; which doubtless had binn our fortune if God had not binn pleased to bless us for the good
work that we had done.
All the difficulties lay upon me, by reason that my brother commissioner
had never binn beyond the seas, nor could speak a word of their
language, and so understood not his danger until it was over.[*] On
the back of the drawing (which is on parchment), is the
following inscription: "Shaban
Aga il Grand d’ ALGEERS. The King of Argeers, to whom I delivered his Maties letters credential, when in 1662 I went his Maties commissioner for the redemption of the
English captives there
with hierarchical and cathedral money, with which I redeemed and
brought home with me all, viz. 162 slaves. John Bargrave, Gent., of Kent. Canon of Christ Church, Canterbury. An Italian slave, a painter, drew
me this rude piece at Argeers, very like as to face and habit. The copies
of which in large I gave, one to his Matie Charles the
Second, who hanged it in his private closet; another
I gave to my patron, Archbishop
Juxon; a third to Archbishop Sheldon; and a fourth I kept for myself,
in memorandum of that Christian and noble imploy, 1662.”
(61). Item, a fair book in folio, with the
effigies of Alexander the 7th,
and all the College of
Cardinals at that time—An° Dni
1658—to my knowledge
very well cut, and exceeding like. I had occasion to have audience
with several of them, and have writ what authors say of them in my
hand.
(62). Item, a large folio in Italian, of medals, by Don Antonio Agostini,
arcivescovo di Tarracona,—full of cuts of medals, with the
reverse, writt by way of dialogue, In Roma.
(63). Item, a small turned instrument of
wood, of about a handful, with a turned furrow in it for a cord that
will bear a man’s weight; it being useful in time of war for a
prisoner to make his escape, by sliding down by a wall of any hight
on a cord that shall not gall the hands, but the person may slide
faster or softlier as he pleaseth, by griping or loosening this
instrument. It was given me at Augsburg by a High-Dutch captain.
(64). Item, a manuscript in Italian, in folio, being the
conclaves or intrigues of the elections of 13 Popes, beginning at
Giulius the 3d, and ending with Paulus Quintus; bound up only alla rustico, as the Italians call it, in pastboard. At the end,
Di Roma, iixx Maggio,
MDCV.
Five of them are translated into English, in loose sheets of paper.
(65). Item, a little manuscript in 5 sheets,
unbound,[*] Nos. 65 and 66 are now bound together.
See the Introduction.
Supplimenti d’alcuni Cardinali,
che sono omessi nella STATERA in Stampa.
(66). Item, a little manuscript in 6 sheets,
unbound, Instruttione del
Sigr
Balij di Valence,
Ambr
del Re Christianissimo, al suo
Successore.
(67). To hang upon my cabinet. My own picture upon copper, in little and in seculo, between my nephew and my
neighbour, drawn at Siena,
1647, by the hand of
Sigr. Mattio Bolognini,
as written on the back side.
(68). To hang upon my cabinet. My own picture upon copper, in little and in seculo, drawn at Rome by a servant of my good friend Sigr. Giovanni Battista
Caninij, an° 1650, the
year of Jubely, as it is written on the back side.
NVMISMATA
BARGRAVIANA Medalloones or Greate
Medalls
Coppies which I had by
fauor frō from Originalls. 1. A Julius Cæsar in brass.
an Oual. 2. Roma, with a head peece. brass.
an Oual. 3. A large Rownd Bacchanalian
of the feast of the Gods. brass. 4. The 3 Graces naked. brass. 5. A Round. History of Traian and
his Son. brass, in a woden
frame. 6. An Excellent featured peece
in Ouall. brass. whome I know not. 7. Thales. brass. 8. Solon brass Socrates. 9. Louis 14th K. of France. brass. 79 10. The Queene Mother of
France, and L 14th. brass. 11. Alexander VII, with a sol-
dier and a lion. brass. 12. Alexander VII, with his
Vatican Cloister. brass. 13. Such as are laide in the
foundation of the new
Stately Towne howse of
Lions in France. brass. These following are Exquisite
coppies but in Ledd. 14. M. T. Cicero. 15. ΣΟΛΩΝ ΣΑΛΑΜΙ. 16. L. Junius Brutus. 17. Luc. An. Seneca. 18. Vera Solonis Effigies. 19. L. Cor. Sulla Cos. 20. C. Marius. VII. Cos. 21. Cn. Pompeius Magnus. 22. Cyrus Rex Persarum 23. M. Junius Brutus. 24. Aristippus Cirenensis. 25. Aristippus Cirenensis. 26. Monsr de Liergue Judge Cri-
mimal of Lions, a greate vir-
tuoso, with a large Chamber full of Antiquities, and varie-
ties. my worthy friend. The 4 Eminent Architects,
Sculputures and Peintors. 27. Mich: Angelus Bonarotus. 28. Vera Titiani Effigies. 29. Raphaelis Urbinus. 30. Julius Romanus. 31. 32. Two young faces. I
know not whoe. 33. The French 2 mother. 34. The Towne howse of Lions. The Curious moulds in ledd
in 8 peeces of Roman history. 35. Diui Julij wth his Lituus.
brass 36. Augustus cū cum Concordia. brass. 37. ΕΛΕΝΗ ΛΗΛΛΙΑ ΣΡΑΡΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ Of Moderne and Ancient
Medalls of Gold, siluer and brass
betweene 4 and 500. In 13
drawers, which fashion of
cabinets for coynes and Medals.
I learned of the Jesuites li-
braries. It. The first 17 Cæsars in theire
order, whereof Otho is hard to
get. Among the rest there may
be more. It. Janus. very Ancient. It. Augustus cū cum Agrippa. Coll.
Mem. now Nimes in France. It. Hercules withe the 12 figures
of the Zodiac It. Titus. Gold. It. Athens owle wth Minerva. It. Alexander, wth Bucephals heade
and 3 leggs for Sicily. Siluer. Ancient. JOHN BARGRAVE, Præb. Cant., 1673.
BARGRAVIANA Medalloones or Greate
Medalls
Coppies which I had by
fauor frō from Originalls. 1. A Julius Cæsar in brass.
an Oual. 2. Roma, with a head peece. brass.
an Oual. 3. A large Rownd Bacchanalian
of the feast of the Gods. brass. 4. The 3 Graces naked. brass. 5. A Round. History of Traian and
his Son. brass, in a woden
frame. 6. An Excellent featured peece
in Ouall. brass. whome I know not. 7. Thales. brass. 8. Solon brass Socrates. 9. Louis 14th K. of France. brass. 79 10. The Queene Mother of
France, and L 14th. brass. 11. Alexander VII, with a sol-
dier and a lion. brass. 12. Alexander VII, with his
Vatican Cloister. brass. 13. Such as are laide in the
foundation of the new
Stately Towne howse of
Lions in France. brass. These following are Exquisite
coppies but in Ledd. 14. M. T. Cicero. 15. ΣΟΛΩΝ ΣΑΛΑΜΙ. 16. L. Junius Brutus. 17. Luc. An. Seneca. 18. Vera Solonis Effigies. 19. L. Cor. Sulla Cos. 20. C. Marius. VII. Cos. 21. Cn. Pompeius Magnus. 22. Cyrus Rex Persarum 23. M. Junius Brutus. 24. Aristippus Cirenensis. 25. Aristippus Cirenensis. 26. Monsr de Liergue Judge Cri-
mimal of Lions, a greate vir-
tuoso, with a large Chamber full of Antiquities, and varie-
ties. my worthy friend. The 4 Eminent Architects,
Sculputures and Peintors. 27. Mich: Angelus Bonarotus. 28. Vera Titiani Effigies. 29. Raphaelis Urbinus. 30. Julius Romanus. 31. 32. Two young faces. I
know not whoe. 33. The French 2 mother. 34. The Towne howse of Lions. The Curious moulds in ledd
in 8 peeces of Roman history. 35. Diui Julij wth his Lituus.
brass 36. Augustus cū cum Concordia. brass. 37. ΕΛΕΝΗ ΛΗΛΛΙΑ ΣΡΑΡΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ Of Moderne and Ancient
Medalls of Gold, siluer and brass
betweene 4 and 500. In 13
drawers, which fashion of
cabinets for coynes and Medals.
I learned of the Jesuites li-
braries. It. The first 17 Cæsars in theire
order, whereof Otho is hard to
get. Among the rest there may
be more. It. Janus. very Ancient. It. Augustus cū cum Agrippa. Coll.
Mem. now Nimes in France. It. Hercules withe the 12 figures
of the Zodiac It. Titus. Gold. It. Athens owle wth Minerva. It. Alexander, wth Bucephals heade
and 3 leggs for Sicily. Siluer. Ancient. JOHN BARGRAVE, Præb. Cant., 1673.