The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Large Quartz Crystal [ARK00050]
Attached People: Collector (major) - Bargrave, John (1610-1680)Location(s): Current location at - Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives (Library and/or Archive) -> Canterbury Cathedral (Institution)
Annotation:[Canterbury Catalog: Largest crystal specimen in the collection. Bought by Bargrave from "the Montecolian man that sold it me told me that he ventured his life to clamber the rocks to gett it". Bargrave describes it being "something longer than my middle finger, 4 or 5 inches compass, sexangular, inaequilateral, cylindrical, pyramidical". It is a fine and clear quartz rock crystal, with one rough surface still soiled. Prismatic in shape, labelled "27".] (undated)