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

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Images supplied courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation. [Photograph].
Click image for full-size. Collector (major)Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725) Donator of object(s)Thomas Wilson (-fl. 1694) 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 Book or Scroll of 17 Yards two Foot
long, wrap'd up in Quarto eight Inches broad, from
Onar in the Kingdom of Canara in the East-Indies; it
is to be writ upon with a Slate Pen. Don. D. Tho.
Wilson Mere.’
Burton Constable label: ‘Novembr ye 3rd 1686 / bought at Onoaor
. . . by me Ephraim Burdall’