The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Manfredo Settala, (1600 - 1680)
Italian cleric, naturalist, and collector. A catalogue of his collection was compiled by the Italian physicist and philosopher Paolo Maria Terzago (1610–1695). Musaeum Septalianum was published in Latin in 1664 and in Italian translation in 1666, a second edition appearing in 1677. CollectorRelevant locations: Lived at or near Milan, Lombardy
Relationships: Manfredo Settala was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Paolo Maria Terzago (1610-1695)
John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a visitor to the collection of Manfredo Settala
Philip Skippon (1641-1691) was a visitor to the collection of Manfredo Settala
References in Documents:
b)
lum.
out of
Strabo
and
Solinus .
Solinus
(
c)
tal
Linschot.
204.
g)
Septal
Goat, or
Antilopeof
Gazella. See the Description of the Animal in
These Hornes are about a foot and ¼ long. But in
lius
length. They are twisted into a kind of spiral shape, but
the Rings which seem to be spiral, are really circular.
The Rhinoceros fights the Elephant with his Horn, and
sometimes overcomes him.
In
are
several Vessels mention'd to be made out of this Horn,
as well
as divers others. The Rhinocerous Horn, in
as also his Teeth, Claws, Flesh, Skin, Blood, yea Dung
and
Piss, are much esteemed, and us'd against Poison, and
many
Diseases; and sold at great rates. (b)b)
p.
88.
an hundred times as much,
as others of the same colour and
bigness; for some difference
which the
discern betwixt them. (c)c)
it
as a thing well known, That the Tusks of Elephants, which
he calls, and useth arguments to
prove them Horns, may,
shape. Whether this be naturally
twisted, or by art, I will
not determine. Musæum
though not a Spiral, yet strait Tusk of an Elephant, two
yards high, and 160 pounds in weight.
The same Horn (together with the Fish it self, some
times above 30 Elns long,)
is described by c) c)
Wor.
But I cannot, with him, call it a Tooth. In that, it per
formeth not the office of a Tooth, but of a Horn.
Nei
ther doth it stand as a Tooth, but
horizontally. Nor is it
fixed in the Mouth, where all Teeth
stand, but in the Snout.
The reason why he calls it so, is,
because it is fastened in the
Snout, as Teeth are in the Jaw.
See also the Description
hereof in d) d)
Cent. 4
Gyris Intortum, is not (at least as to this
Horn) so clearly
expressed: the Horn it self being strait, and
not writhen,
but only surrounded with spiral Furrows. The same
is
also transcribed by
Musæum
The Figure which
fictitious. But that in
least) is a very good one: from whom
his. One of the Cubs is
accurately described by
Vorstius
zagi
drags his hinder part after him, as the
Seal. They always,
saith a) a)
218. S. 4
they sleep, one of them, as among Cranes, is set to watch.
They climb upon the Rocks
on the Sea-side by the help
of their great Tusks, wherewith,
as with two Hooks, they
hold themselves from sliping. They
breed numerously
near Lawrence Isle.
Their Teeth generally stand in a six-fold Row; but
some other Fishes which have as many, and the Scate hath
more: but take their Number and Bigness together, and
they are more considerable. In
is one, saith
sand and two hundred Teeth.
But neither hath this here,
nor had any other that I ever read
of, near half so
many.
pair of these here preserved.
lowed any Man.
a)
Hist. Anim.
l. 9. c. 37.
Rondeletius
Oppia
out of
out of
nus.
nius
And
out of him
out of him
Septalius
Musæum
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.
In
Petrify'd Wood found an hundred and forty Pertches
un
der the top of a
Mountain. And by a)
a)
Nomenclat
sort of petrify'd Beech (as the
people call it) both Trunk,
Branches, and Leaves, taken (for
Whetstones) out of the
Ground in
the
Elns depth. But what
kind of Eln is here meant, is not
certain.
a)
Septal
c)
Mus. c. 13.
n. 18, 19
b)
Sept
. Not pointed, nor anCRYSTAL
gular; but of a roundish figure; much bigger than any
mans head. One way, near a yard in compass; the other,
above three quarters. In weight, thirty nine pounds and a
¼
Haverdupoise. Yet is it very clear, beyond the clearest
Iceof the same thickness. The biggest piece of
CrystalI
find mention'd else-where, is a Ball of six and thirty ounces
in
Musæum.
e)
tal
h)
in
in
b)
Septal
longer, hath
a deeper Indenture, but no handle. Both of
them strike fire
like other Flints. That of
found in a Hill in the Ripen.
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.
Thus far of Regular Stones, whose external
Form is Circumscriptive, or
at least depending upon the whole Stone.
I shall now describe those, whose Form is Accumulative, or
where there is a repetition of the
same figure, or near it, in
several Parts.
a)
Septal
other in a
Plain. There are some of this kind in
Claiy and Mundick
Load, between Beds of a Greenish
Earth. The Threads
⅓d or near ½ an inch long, of
a glossy
black, and brittle. Given by Mr.
it
amongst the
Cornish Mines.
The best is found in
good in some Mines in Philos. Transactions. (a) a) Tow, into Sheets;
in which the
Bodies of Princes, laid on the Funeral Pile,
were wrapped up, to keep them entire, when they were
burnt, from the other ashes. These Sheets were made clean,
not
by washing, but by burning them; as being insuper
able by the fire: from whence the Name of the Stone.
The
Art, as well as the Use, is thought to be gone. But
not so;
for b)
b) Thread, Ropes, Paper, and Netted-Works all made hereof; and some
of them with his own hand. c) c)
Lap. & Gem
Oyntment made of this Stone, which he highly com
Tinea Puerorum; and Ulcers in the Legs. It
hath no sense
of Acids.
a)
Septal
In
Frog.
And
a)
a)
lib. 2
big as a mans Head.
d)
Septal
ofBead-roll
Roger Norreis, Abbot of
Lilleshull
Ed. 3
Geo. Plaxton
) mayBerwic in Elmet
be seen a great Variety of Hands, writ in the same Age, there being
in a large Parchment Scroll, the distinct
Titulusof above 180 Reli
gious Houses; some curiously engross'd, others so miserably writ, as
to be scarce legible; but all agree in Writing
Dompnumfor
Dominum,
as some ancient Authors insert
pin
sumpsit.