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

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[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford]

I have to thank the Librarian of the Bodleian Library for his kindness in sending the MS. to our College library for me to copy, and I am much indebted to my friends Mr. J. Hall and Prof. C. H. Herford for help in many ways, always readily given.

MANCHESTER, sept. 8th, 86. Herman Hager.