The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Toothbrush

Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Donator of object(s)Seb. Alchribel (-) In Print: Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thoresby (1659-1725) Preserved at Burton Constable Hall, East Yorkshire, 33 Description:Described in Musaeum Thoresbianum as: ‘A Tooth-brush from Mecca in Arabia
Felix . . . being only a Stick, whose End for an Inch
long is parted into small Fibres. Don. D. Seb.
Alchribel.’
Burton Constable label: ‘Wood from Mecca, of which / ye Turks
make Tooth-Brushes. / Thoresby p. 452 Ducut / Leod.’
and ‘452.2[-]’