The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
[Travel Diary of Jean Fontaine and Louis Schönbub]
A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. and an account of the Rarities given by each of them under their respective names (Diary)
Royal Library of Copenhagen
Date:1631 Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Jean Fontaine (-fl. 1631) Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Louis Schönbub (-fl. 1631) Subject of/in a documentOxford Anatomy School (-) Annotation:The earliest known description of the Anatomy School's collection, in 1630 or 1631. It is not clear which of these travellers is the author of this diary.This appears to be the same manuscript as the one transcribed in part by Schayes (1854), which, he says was then held in the library of the Académie d’Archéologie de Belgique. Schayer describes it as a four-volume, fine manuscript, beginning in 1625 and extending to 1633, covering travels in France, Belgium, England, Holland and some parts of Germany neighboring the Rhine.
Gunther notes that this ms is mentioned by Macray, Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd ed., p. 74.
Bibliographic Source(s): Relation d’un Voyage en Belgique e..., page: 256-60