The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Lodovico Moscardo, Count (1611 - 1681)
Alias Moscardus [Alias]
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Italy, Europe
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Note overo memorie del museo di Lodovico Moscardo nobile veronese, academico filarmonico, dal medesimo descritte, et in tre libri distinte. Nel primo si discorre delle cose antiche, le quali in detto museo si trovano. Nel secondo delle pietre, minerali, e terre. Nel terzo de corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute.
as Authority - early modern - Note overo memorie del museo di Lodovico Moscardo nobile veronese, academico filarmonico, dal medesimo descritte, et in tre libri distinte. Nel primo si discorre delle cose antiche, le quali in detto museo si trovano. Nel secondo delle pietre, minerali, e terre. Nel terzo de corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute.
as Collector (minor) - Note overo memorie del museo di Lodovico Moscardo nobile veronese, academico filarmonico, dal medesimo descritte, et in tre libri distinte. Nel primo si discorre delle cose antiche, le quali in detto museo si trovano. Nel secondo delle pietre, minerali, e terre. Nel terzo de corali, conchiglie, animali, frutti, & altre cose in quello contenute.
References in Documents:
With many thanks I return that noble Catalogue of Books, Rarities and
Singularities of Art and Nature, which you were pleased to communicate unto me.
There are many Collections of this kind in Musæum Aldrovandi,
OCalceo-
194; the Musæum Clausum, or, Tract XIII.
Calceolarianum, Moscardi, WormianumDennis,Repository of the
Ibexmas. In shape almost like a bended Cross
bow. By the string, ¼ of a yard long; but by the
bow, about an Eln. It was formerly tipp'd with
silver, and kept in a Gentlemans house, and shew'd (to
some special Friends) for the Claw of a
Griffin. See the
figure hereof in
no where describ'd, or figur'd, unless perhaps by
The convex work is composed of black and citrine pieces, in
the Margin, of a Pyramidal or wedged Figure, oppositely
set, and with
transverseNotches: amongst which there are
also little square, rugged, and citrine pieces intermixed.
All the rest, which are also black and citrine, are six times
as big, adorned not with transverse but
paralellNotches.
Neither are they Radiated, but several of the same kind
contiguous side to side. They are compos'd into
Area's
almost flat: the centres whereof are also rugged, but much
bigger than in the Shell last described. The Belly-piece is
also less convex.
likeness it hath to a little
Heart; but yet flattish, and near as
big as a
Garden-Bean. Described and figur'd by
to the flame of a
Candle, (
e)
e)
of divers colours. Anciently much used in Medicines, now
obsolete, as
Confectio Anacardina, &c. The Oil or Mellagi
nousSuccus
nous
betwixt the Rind and the Kernel is that which is
called(
called
f)
f)
Wormian
(given it by most) or of Honey, must be improper. It
is of a very Caustick and venimous Nature. Being mixed
g)
Tom. 1. 336
with
Lime, 'tis used for the marking of
Cottons(
g) through
out
India .
The
pickle the green Fruit, (
h)
h)
ab Horto
and eat
them as Olives. When perhaps they contain little or none
them as Olives
of that Caustick Oil.
Ichthyites in modum Typi. There
are several figures of Fishes in Stones in
,
Besler ,
Aldrovandus
and
Flints.Septalius
hath a Head in
Mar
ble. And Mr.
ble
a)
a)
Gems
p. 156
Serpent(all but
the Head) perfectly shap'd, and coyl'd up in it. All these
(except perhaps the last) are either semblances on a Plain,
or at least in solid Stones. But this here is hollow, and
was so found in the
now split into two halfs, like those of a casting Mould.
On the insides of which, are fairly impress'd the form of
the
Spine, with the Ribs, Fins, and Tail, of a Fish. With
out, a long Plate of the same substance, grows to each
side; and others cross to these: as if to the Mould of the
Fish, were also added that of its Funeral Cloaths.
Moscardo , Minera
de Ingranata
Anchorites. Of affinity
with
that well described by b)
b)
1. Sect. 2.
c.
13Silex
venabuli ferreum Cuspidem exactè referens. By
c)
with that of
or
four Varieties. This like those, is a perfect Flint, and c)
2. c.
50
semiperspicuous. 'Tis likewise in the same manner, pointed
like a Speer. Having at the other end, like
those of
cardo
that 'tis pointed or spiked also backward on
both sides the
Handle; with some resemblance to an Anchor, or the Head
of a Bearded-Dart:
from whence I have nam'd it. 'Tis
likewise toothed on the
edges, and the sides as it were
wrought with a kind of
undulated sculpture, as those before
mention'd.
Not only
the Cerauniæ or Thunder-bolts. So called, because believed
sometimes with Thunder to shoot down with violence out
of the middle Region. Amongst other Relations hereof,
that of
a)
a)
Septal
Corps of one struck dead with Thunder, being
inspected in
the presence of
Wound observed about the Hip, and searched to the Bone;
they found therein a round and edged Stone,
which being
broken, had a very strong sulphurious stink. With
this
Author, I scarce think any thing of this nature
incredible,
to those that read the Relation given at large by
b)
b)
of the
Norwegick Mouse.
'sMoscardus
a
.Roman Catapulta
Plot
, the FiStaffordshire
gure of which Tab XXXIII. Fig. 5. exactly suits
in
, about six Years ago, and was the Present ofCraven
Ambrose Pud
sey, of
sey
, EsqBolton, juxta Bolland
by the Labourers as they were making a Fence, near the Moor now
called
Monnebents, perhaps from the
Monec,Saxon
monachusand
bene
a Prayer, except some notorious Slaughter of the Monks in after Ages
might deduce it from beneoτen
interficere. This is seven Inches long,
and 2½ broad at the Edge, which was placed foremost for Execution,
and is yet sharp and piercing, the wooden Stem was fitted into the
Hollows of each Side of it, where it is an Inch and half thick.