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

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Seb. Alchribel ( - )

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
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Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Tooth-brush from Mecca in Arabia Felix, where is a Turkish Mosque esteemed the most glorious in the World, visited by infinite Number of Pilgrims; for the poorer Sort, of whom these, I presume, are designed, being only a Stick, whose End for an Inch long is parted into small Fibres. Don. D. Seb. Alchribel. A carved Whale-Bone five Inches broad and thirty long. Don. D. Lid. Hough. A Cord made of the Leaves of the American Aloes. Don. D. Jo. Sharp. An Indian Lanthorn made of Twig-work, or split Cane, very fine, a Yard and half long; it was brought from the East-Indies, and given me by Dr. Midgeley of Leedes. A very odd Lanthorn made of the Skin of a Fish said to be the Solpen or Scolopendra, but is rather of the Piscis Echinatus triangularis; it is a Yard and a Quarter in Compass. This was procured also from the East-Indies, and given me by Mrs. Madox. Two Fishing-Lines near five Foot long of Indian Plants. Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. A walking Staff, composed of eight Joints of a Sugar Cane, about seven Inches distant from each other. An Indian Cane above two Yards and a half long, painted with Variety of Colours, red, blew, yellow, green and black.