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

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Mr. Greave ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Of the Sepulchral Urns, here is one that contains almost a Gallon; another scarce a Quart, but of a very neat Make; a third almost of the same Form, but considerably less, full of the Ashes of a Child, in the greater are larger Bones with the Ashes. Others less than that, and of different Forms and Colours. A very small red Urn from Yorke, where 14 or 16 of them were found surrounding a large one, and were supposed to contain the Ashes of the Parent and Children; all these are broad and open at the Top to receive the Bones and Ashes. Those with the narrow Necks, were, I presume, for Liquids. A Pottle Bottle of the coarse Red from Isurium; I was well pleased to find it entire, that I might observe the Difference betwixt the Roman Congius (of which I take this to be strictly the half) and our Gallon; and this comes the nighest Mr. Greave's Computation, containing three Pints and a Half, the Winchester Measure. One of a finer Clay from Yorke, with a Handle; this is Red; but here is also one of the Blew, and a third of the clear White Clay that I brought from the same Place; it hath a Moulding about the Neck. A flat Vessel about five Inches Diameter, and one deep, that I supposed was originally designed as a Cover to a Sepulchral Urn of the like Dimensions; this is of the blewish Clay, and from Yorke, part of one of the White from Burgodunum.