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Charles Perry, Dr. (1698 - 1780)

Traveller and medical writer Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/76839 Other biography: http://eng.travelogues.gr/collection.php?view=35 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt and Greece .
 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) For The Revd Dr Lloyd Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxon & Principall of Jesus College at His Lodgings there These –Oxon Of the Egyptian embalming Trough given by Dr. Perry. See View of the Levant &c by Charles Perry MD. P.519 Extract – The Matter or Substance of this precious piece of Antiquity, is granite of the prime Quality: its form is this
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& if it were perfect at the end, c, it would then appear to be the Section, taken lengthways, of a vase of this form
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for without doubt the other side corresponded with it as to form, Dimension & ornaments. The whole piece from the point a to the end c is 7 feet long the width 2 feet & the fl at part of an uniform Thickness of nearly 10 Inches: its weight 20 hundr &c. Whatsoever it is or may have been when whole & entire, it appears to be the most precious & curious piece of Antiquity that we have seen in our Travels, whether in Italy, Greece, Syria or Egypt. &c.
MS The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) 722.C Pars Sarcophagi (vel forsan vasis in quo Mumiae condiebantur) In Angliam Allata, et Universitati oppignerata per Perry, M.D. ~ vide Perry's Travels, ubi egregii cimelii picturam quoque de eo tradit ipse Author cernere est. Part of a sarcophagus (or perhaps of a container in which mummies are preserved) brought to England and bequeathed to the University by Perry, Doctor of Medicine. See Perry 1743, pp. 470-73, pl. 18, where a picture of this outstanding treasure is to be seen and where the author himself writes about it.