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

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Monastery

Toulouse (Settlement), Languedoc (Region), Midi-Pyrénées (Region), France

Google's approximation of the location Description of institution: Bargrave in his Catalogue refers to "a great monastery of Franciscans" at Toulouse whose ground possessed a remarkable ability to preserve interred corpses. He might have misidentified either the Jacobin Convent there, or more likely, the ancient Augustinian Convent. People associated with this location: Bargrave, John (1610-1680) - Visited