The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
List of objects sent in a parcel to Ralph Thoresby
Brent Nelson
general editor
Sarah Vela
initial transcription and markup
Leeds
Yorkshire Archaeological Society
YAS
MS19
Catalogue description: "Ralph Thoresby's correspondence Vol 14 17th-18th century. Being miscellaneous papers and letters collected by Thoresby."
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[List of items sent in a parcel to Ralph Thoresby]
Unidentified author
Clear italic hand.
Between 1680 and 1705
This with its Parcel
is for
Mr Thoresby
the Antiqur:ie in
Leeds
it is desired that it be
sent to him, or that hee
have word to fech it.
The
Irish Lizard
Iron and brass ore together
in the same stone
[straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a piece of ancient Mosaic
work
several sorts of ore [straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a piece of petrify'd moss
several curious tobacco pipes
a boar's tusk [straight vertical line spanning two lines]
plants rooted in stones and
shells [parallel straight vertical lines, one solid, one dotted, spanning three lines]
a round ponderous stone
said to be found in a man's
bladder.
[straight vertical line spanning two lines]
an anonymous little horn
curiously turn'd.
a piece of a
Roman urn
Several spors [straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a piece of calcin'd matter thrown
out of
mount
Vesuvius.
a cat tail sponge
with divers shells, plants, min-
eralls and other anonymous
things. Medals
seven silver
thirty nine copper
a leaden one of
Queen Ann
[long horizontal line]
Mr. Richard Baldwin he
gave a humming bird from the
Indies, and a
treble
nut.
Mr. Thomas Prior
[curvy vertical line spanning the next three
lines]
he gave two darts of a porcupine &
a small wooden shoe neatly wrought.
Mr. George Bukeley he
gave 2 copper medals a leaden Half Crown Coin'd
by
King James in
Ireland.
a salve of medicinal
earth.
a pot of the same me-
dicinal earth.
a bowl made of a very large
coco-nut-shell
a certain anonymous nut
shel cast by the sea on the
Irish shores.
[straight vertical line spanning single line]
several fairie's darts of diffe-
rent kinds. [straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a large Herry stone of a very
clear water. [straight dotted vertical line spanning two lines]
a piece of very fine marble
wth golden resplendenies [straight solid vertical line spanning two lines]
a stone wrought by nature into
the form of a ring
the stone Iroclietes
a piece of a very curious, ano-
nymous, sweet-scented skin.
2 cods of
Guinea peppers
a sort of grass wch is petrify'd
from its infancy
a box of rare nuts
shels wch pass for mony in
Guinea
a box of curious shells [straight vertical line spanning three lines]
a small lizard of
Africa call'd a schenck made use of as an
antidote against poyson.
a little box of sulphur found
in the midst of a rock [straight vertical line spanning single line]
the rattle of a rattle snake
[straight vertical line spanning three lines]
divers muscle-shells naturally
guilt on the inside
cotton in the cod
an anonymous cod full of seed [straight vertical line spanning four lines]
a
Turkish boot
a pair of
Turkish-slippers
a pair of a
Portuguese lady's
shoes
a
Chinese basket
[straight vertical line spanning five lines]
a cap worn by the foreign
literati
a piece of
Queen Elisabeth's
staffe inlaid with mother of
pearl
an
Indian womans comb
[straight vertical line spanning two lines]
part of a petrify'd mush-
roome [straight dotted line line spanning single line]
a
Perisan Wick
[straight vertical line spanning single line]
a petrify'd Cockle-shell [straight dotted vertical line spanning two lines]
a strange sort of an
Indian
Idol.
3 very curious sea-fish shells
of the same kind and bigness
a larger one of the same sort [straight vertical line spanning single line]
Mother of pearl
a petrify'd shell
a very beautifull little shell
of the periwincle kind
an elegant cup and cover
both of a fishe's shell. [straight vertical line spanning three lines]
a hair-ball found in the
stomach of a cow.
a pome-granate
some branches of red
coral growing on their
bed of stone.
a branch of white coral
a nut shell of the Calibast
kind.
2
Lough-neagh hornes
2 quartys of polish'd glass
made use of to demonstrate
the weight of the air. [straight vertical line spanning three lines]
An anonymous quill of remarkable big-ness
an ear of white
Virginia
-wheat.
an ear of red
Virginia-wheat
[straight vertical line spanning three lines]
the claw of a lobster of extra-
ordinary size
the skin of a musk-rat.
a piece of Jewish unleaven'd
bread.
a specimen of
Doctr Wal-lis's floor. [straight vertical line spanning single line]
a star-fish.
the Cone of a pine tree
a pile of grass much like
brass wire. [straight vertical line spanning single line]
a
Turkish horse-shoe
a Human foetus preserv'd
20 years in spirit of wine [straight vertical mark spanning two lines]
The skin of an Iguana
Lizard —
an Ostrich Egg —
The tail of an Armadilla [straight vertical mark spanning five lines]
The skin of a young Crocodile
An Eagle headed tortoise
a Coco nut
ye jawbones of a small shark
A tea fan with united branches
A Calabasli nut shell.
A snow shoe [straight vertical mark spanning two lines]
The branch of a tree naturally
turn'd
A poyson'd Arrow [straight vertical mark spanning three lines]
2
Indian Arrows
An Odd
Indian weapon
an
Highland dagger –
ye Horn of a sea unicorn
ye Calumet of peace [straight vertical mark spanning two lines]
ye skin of a ratle snake
a
turkish tobacco pipe
[page long vertical line separating columns]
[straight vertical line spanning five lines]
a Wilk-shell
the pizzle of an Hippopo-
tamus.
a large Wilk-shell
an ancient lamp
the short rib of a Giant
a cup made out of a coco-
nut-shell.
An Elephant's tooth [straight vertical line spanning three lines]
a lesse wilk-shell
a Wilk of a different kind
from the 3 former.
[straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a foreign-shield thought
to be of
Japan.
[straight vertical line spanning two lines]
a bunch of Porcupine's
quills [straight vertical line spanning five lines]
a feather suppos'd to be-long to the bird of paradise