The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Apollo (mythology) ( - )
Alias for Phoebus
Apollo (mythology) was a father of Orpheus (-)
Arion of Corinth (-fl. 625 BC) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Apollo (mythology)
Diana / Artemis / Chastity (-) was a sister of Apollo (mythology)
Hecate / Trivia (-) was a relative of Apollo (mythology)
Jupiter / Zeus (-) was a father of Apollo (mythology)
References in Documents:
Lyre in his Right
Antiquities and Rarities of several sorts.
1. Certain ancient Medals with
2. Some ancient Ivory and Copper Crosses found with many others in
Musæum Clausum, or, Tract XIII.
3. Stones of strange and illegible Inscriptions, found about the great
ruines which
4. Some handsome Engraveries and Medals, of
5. An original Medal of Flagellum
Principum, wherein he made his own Figure on the Obverse part with
this Inscription,
Il Divino Aretino.
On the Reverse sitting on a Throne, and at his Feet Ambassadours of Kings and Princes bringing presents unto him, with this Inscription,
I Principi tributati da i Popoli tributano il Servitor loro.
Mum-
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6. Mummia Tholosana; or, The complete Head and Body
of Crispin,
Ecce iterum Crispinus.
7. A noble Quandros or Stone taken out of a Vulture's
Head.
8. A large Ostridges Egg, whereon is neatly and fully
wrought that famous Battel of Alcazar, in which
three Kings lost their lives.
9. An Etiudros Alberti or Stone that is apt to be
always moist: usefull unto drie tempers, and to be held in the hand in
Fevers instead of Crystal, Eggs, Limmons, Cucumbers.
10. A small Viol of Water taken out of the Stones therefore called Enhydri, which naturally include a little Water in
them, in like manner as the Ætites or Aëgle Stone doth another Stone.
Musæum Clausum, or, Tract XIII.
11. A neat painted and gilded Cup made out of the Confiti
di Tivoli and formed up with
powder'd Eggshells; as Piscina
admirabilis, singular against Fluxes to drink often therein.
12. The Skin of a Snake bred out of the Spinal Marrow of a Man.
13. Vegetable Horns mentioned by
14. An extract of the Inck of Cuttle Fishes reviving the old remedy of
15. Spirits and Salt of
16. An extract of Cachunde or Liberans that famous and highly magnified Composition in the
17. Diarhizon mirificum; or an unparallel'd
Composition of the most effectual and wonderfull Roots in Nature.
Rad.
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Rad. Butuæ Cuamensis. Rad. Moniche Cuamensis.Rad. Mongus Bazainensis.Rad. Casei Baizanensis.Rad. Columbæ Mozambiguensis.Gim Sem Sinicæ.Fo Lim lac Tigridis dictæ.Fo seuCort. Rad. Soldæ.Rad. Ligni Solorani.Rad. Malacensis madrededios dictæ an.ƺij.M. fiat pulvis, qui cum gelatinâ Cornu cervi Moschati Chinensis formetur in massas oviformes.
18. A transcendent Perfume made of the richest Odorates of both the
— Deos rogato Totum ut te faciant,
Fabulle, Nasum.
19. A Clepselæa, or Oil Hour-glass, as the
Ancients used those of Water.
20. A Ring found in a Fishes Belly taken about
Musæum Clausum, or, Tract XIII.
21. A neat Crucifix made out of the cross Bone of a Frogs Head.
22. A large Agath containing a various and careless Figure, which looked upon
by a Cylinder representeth a perfect Centaur. By some such advantages Pyrrhus
23. Batrachomyomachia, or the Homerican Battel
between Frogs and Mice, neatly described upon the Chizel Bone of a large
Pike's Jaw.
24. Pyxis Pandoræ, or a Box which held the Unguentum Pestiferum, which by anointing the Garments
of several persons begat the great and horrible Plague of
25. A Glass of Spirits made of Æthereal Salt, Hermetically sealed up,
kept continually in Quick-silver; of so volatile a nature that it will
scarce endure the Light, and therefore onely to be shown in Winter, or by
the light of a Carbuncle, or
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now is, is a great
not He. However, I am,
Sir, Yours,&c.
22. A large Agath containing a various and careless Figure, which looked upon
by a Cylinder representeth a perfect Centaur. By some such advantages Pyrrhus
Echeneis. Remora.
tolerable Description any where.
'Tis about ¼ of a yard long. His Body before, three
inches and ½ over; thence tapering to the Tail-end. His
Mouth two inches and ½ over. His Chaps ending some
what angularly. The nether a little broader, and
produced
forward near an inch more than the upper. His Lips
rough
with a great number of little prickles. His Eyes round,
¼ of an inch over, an inch behind his Mouth.
His Head squat, adorned with a kind of Oval Coronet,
somewhat Concave, five inches and ½
long, above two broad,
cut traversly with three and twenty
Incisions or long
Apertures, making so many distinct
Membranes, with
rough edges, joyned altogether with a Ligament
running
through the middle of the Coronet, and perforated on each
side the Ligament.
The Gills wind from an inch and ½ behind the Eyes down
to the Throat. The Fins seven. The Gill-Fins above
four inches
long; The Breast-Fins as long. About a ¼ of
a yard
behind the Coronet a fifth extended on the
Back
above ¼ of a yard. A sixth like it on the Belly.
The
Tail-end, like a Spear, a little compressed. The Tail-Fin
three inches and ½ long. The Anus open about the middle
of the Fish. His Skin is
(now) brown, smooth, and tough,
or like tan'd Leather.
Perhaps the same Fish, which a)
a) Hist. of
Barbadoes
swims along with the Shark, and frequently sticks to some
part about his
Head. At least, it is very probable, that
this Fish is able to
fasten himself to any great Fish, Boat, or
Ship, with the help
of the Coronet or Sucker on his Head;
which seems to be most fitly
contrived for that purpose.
In some sort answerable to the
Tail of a Leech, whereby
she sticks her
self fast to the smoothest Glass. Or to those
round Leathers,
wherewith Boys are us'd to play, called
Suckers, one of which, not above an inch and
½ diametre,
being well soaked in water, will stick so
fast to a Stone, as
to pluck one of twelve or fourteen pounds
up from the
ground.
Of the stupendious power which this Fish is supposed to
have,
there are many concur in the story; as that he is able
to stop
a Ship in its career under full Sail: and what not?
That
though the Moon be made of a Green Cheese, yet is
not the only Nest
of Maggots.
alone, in
ascribing it to his easily altering the
position of the Helm,
and so the motion of the Ship, coming
near to good
sense: especially if he had proved, That the Name
of the
Fish, and the Story, were not Things much older than
the
Helm of a Ship.
'Tis plain, that the Tradition had a very early beginning,
when
little light Boats were the Ships which people us'd.
To the
side whereof, this Fish fastening her self, might easily
make
it swag, as the least preponderance on either side will
do,
and so retard its Course. And the Story once begot
upon a
Boat, might still, like the Fish it self, stick to
it, though
turn'd to a Ship. Assigning as great a power to
this
God of Life in the
Heavens; who yet appears by the best
accounts of him put
together, to have been at first no better
than a Crafty Mountebank.
g) g)
de Lap
of clear Horn. The
hardest of Semiperspicuous Gems. They
grow in
India, Germany, Bohemia. Naturally adorned with
much
variety of waved and other figur'd Veins, Spots, the
representation of Vegetable, and sometimes of Animal
Bodies.
None more memorable, than that mention'd
a) a)
c. 11Pyrrhus King of
much strain of
phancy, one might imagine a representa
tion of the
Nine Muses, and Harp, in the
middle of them. 'Tis used for Sword-Hilts,
Knife-Hafts, Beads, Cups, and the like. There are
pieces of it, sometimes
(b)
b)
Septal
Gabions
in
his Cabinet.
Master
horne
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Brown Kennet,
totum, A
aufer, D
deponeand N
nihil. The disk was spun like a top, the player’s fortune being decided by the letter uppermost when the disk fell’ (DOST).
Momusgift did not inlake
inlaik,
v. to be deficient; to come or run short; to be wanting or missing (DOST)
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature(CUP, 2004), p. 59.
Pantheon.
Gabionsstay,
loOracle, Diana's Tomb, &c. which may keep me in Countenance
for
reciting what follows. A
the River Jonah's Rock, of which GordonGeorg. Gram. p. 269.)
doubtful whether
the ruinous old Monument, known by that Name,
was erected upon that Occasion; yet it is
highly probable, that this
Scanderoon Bay
Delivery, it being the nearest to
was brought from thence, and given me by
Surgeon to a Man of War for
self broke off
that is shewed to Travellers, as that into which
verted from
amongst the Collections of Sarah
Speering
may be added a
Spots of her Blood, but should have been placed (if
not mislaid) as Snakes amongst the natural Stones.