Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.)422 Imp. C. Postumus P.F. Aug. Caput Postumi corona radiatâ. Herc. Deus Onieus. Hercules dextra clavâ sinistra pellem leonis gestans. Ær.Postumus. Head of Postumus with a radiate crown; Hercules with a club in his right hand and with the skin of a lion in his left.
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.)538 Cama ex Rubicello vel Amethysto albo, figurâ Herculis clavæ innixi sculpta. 496Cameo of ruby or white amethyst, engraved with the figure of Hercules leaning on his club, again mounted in gold.MacGregor 1983, no. 151.
MS The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)7692 Figura Herculis ex gypso facta & tergo
centauri imposita; unam manum habet ita
porrectum, ut magnâ vi videatur hujus monstri
capiti colaphum impacturus; alterâ verò manu ejus
caput torquet.Figure of Hercules on the back of a centaur, made from
gypsum; he holds one hand outstretched in such a way that
he seems about to deal a blow of great force to the head of
this monster; he twists its head back with the other hand.
(3). A very ancient brass image of Hercules, one foot
broke off, with his club in his hand; esteemed for its good
features, and very like other marble statues and brass medals that I
have seen of Hercules, whereof
there is one amongst my drawers. This was dugg out of his temple near the Tyber, at the foot of the Aventine Hill at Rome -- still standing, almost
all, and made a chappell.
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)(3). A very ancient brass image of Hercules, one foot
broke off, with his club in his hand; esteemed for its good
features, and very like other marble statues and brass medals that I
have seen of Hercules, whereof
there is one amongst my drawers. This was dugg out of his temple near the Tyber, at the foot of the Aventine Hill at Rome -- still standing, almost
all, and made a chappell.
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)(4). Item, a brass flat piece, with the figure of a man drawing an ox by the horns; very ancient,
being dugg out of another temple of
Herculesthat stood upon the Aventine
Hill, on the place where he killed the thief Cacus, where now standeth a
church dedicated to St.
Stephen, which by its title beareth the memory of the old
story of Cacus, it being still
called Sto Stefano nel Caco.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(f) Hercules Mingens (drunk and urinating). H: 6 cms. including spike on left foot for fixing to
pedestal. . . . dugg out of his temple near the Tyber, at the foot of the Aventine Hill at Rome - still standing, almost all, and made a chappell. Wooden pedestal, H: 3.5 cms.
B3.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(i) Cornelian, oval flat; bust of young Hercules wearing lion skin, in profile to right. L: 9mm., broken
on upper left side. 1st cent. B.C. or A.D.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(a) Bronze plaque of woman crowning ox with wreath. W: 5.3 cms. Original paper label "Frō Hercules
temple under / the Aventin hill at Rome / where he killed Cacus /
where now standsSt Stevens Church / caled Sto Stefano del Cacco. / Hercules
with the bull". B4.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(a) Bronze plaque of woman crowning ox with wreath. W: 5.3 cms. Original paper label "Frō Hercules
temple under / the Aventin hill at Rome / where he killed Cacus /
where now standsSt Stevens Church / caled Sto Stefano del Cacco. / Hercules
with the bull". B4.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(b) Bronze figure of Hercules. H: 11 cms. Hercules Juvenis, with his club and
lion’s skin. . . supposed modern. Right foot has been sanded flat and left foot has hole for spike from pedestal.
B6i.
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)(b) Bronze figure of Hercules. H: 11 cms. Hercules Juvenis, with his club and
lion’s skin. . . supposed modern. Right foot has been sanded flat and left foot has hole for spike from pedestal.
B6i.
No. 1Head of Hercules.Rev: The Tale of Phaethonfrom the Chariot of the Sun incircled with the 12 signs of
the Zodiac.Inscription ΑΔΥΝΑΤΑ
ΖΗΤΩΝwt dw gr 1oz : 3 : 9¼Bargrave
No. 8Head of Hercules
cloathed in the Lyon’s skin [three circles angled upward]Rev. The prow of a ship.over it C. S. A.[three circles angled upward]at the Bottom ROMA.pw gr 4 : 12Bargrave
No. 42Head of Philip
armed with a Lyons Skin.Reverse I think an Hercules darting his Javelin, his left Hand holding
before him his shield.Bargravepw : gr 4 : 21¼These
before going 2 are I
think Macedonian
158Head of Commodus in a LyonsLyon'sSkinCAEL
AVREL .................Reverse The Club of Hercules in the Middle of the
following Inscpription in and Oaken Crown.HERCVLROMANAV GVSCBargrave
Bargrave's labels (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)Tru ancient.
Frō
FromHercules temple under the
Aventine hill at Romewhere he killed Cacus where now
standsStSt. Stevens church caled . . . S. Stefano del
Cacco.
Hercules
wthwith the bull.
HERCULES'S CLUB. Rubi facie senticosa Planta. A tall
woody Plant, described in some sort, and so called, by Lobelius. Near
three yards long; how much longer, is uncertain, being cut off
at both ends; almost seven inches in compass, strait, and but
very little taper'd. Originally, had two or three
Branches, here cut off. Encompassed with a great
many pointed Studs, (whence its Name) thick set, and sometimes
growing double, flatish, and about an inch broad by the length
of the Club, after the figure of the
Thorns of the Rasberry-Bush. Like to
which they are also meerly cortical, having not one fiber of
wood in them, whereby they break like Cork,
but are not so soft. The wood is as hard, as that of Holly, and the Pith but small. So that notwithstanding the similitude of their Thorns, yet is it a different Plant
from the Rubus.
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
The Inventarie of the Gabions,
inM. Georgehis Cabinet.
OFf uncouth formes, and wondrous
shapes,Like Peacoks, and like Indian apes,Like Leopards, and beasts spoted,Of clubs curiously knoted,Of wondrous workmanships, and rare,Like Eagles flying in the air,Like Centaurs, Maremaids in the Seas,Like Dolphins, and like honie bees,Some carv'd in timber, some in stone,Of the wonder of Albion;Which this close cabine doth include;Some portends ill, some presage good:What sprite Dædalian hath forth brought them,Yee Gods assist, I thinke yee wrought them,Your influences did conspireThis comelie cabine to attire.Neptune gave first his awfull trident,And Pan the hornes gave of a bident,Triton his trumpet of a buckie[*]DOST: The shell of a whelk or other mollusc,Propin'd[*]to offer, as a gift to him, was large and luckie:Mars gave the glistring sword and dagger,Wherewith some time he wont to swagger,Cyclopean armour of Achilles,Fair Venus purtrayed by Apelles,The valiant Hectors weightie spear,Wherewith he fought the Trojan war,The fatall sword and seven fold shieldOf Ajax, who could never yeeld:Yea more the great Herculean clubBrusde Hydra in the Lernè dub[*]Scots: to consign, condemn.Hote Vulcan with his crooked heeleBestow'd on him a tempred steele,Cyclophes were the brethren Allans,Who swore they swet more then ten gallonsIn framing it upon their forge,And tempring it for MasterGeorge:But Æsculapius taught the lessonHow he should us'd in goodly fashion,And bad extinguis't in his ale,When that he thought it pure and stale[*]Scots: chiefly of ale: having stood for a time and become clear, free from lees, ready for drinkingWith a pugill[*]measurement: a large pinch of polypodium[*]extract of the fern genus:And Ceres brought a manufodium[*]Parkinson: a nonce formation, perhaps macaronic (manu, ‘by hand’ + fodium, ‘food’? ‘dug up’?); bread is conventionally the gift of Ceres (Ovid, Met. 11.145, 13.639):And will'd him tost it at his fireAnd of such bread never to tyre;Then Podalirius did concludeThat for his melt was soverainge good.Gold hair'd Apollo did bestowHis mightie-sounding silver bow,With musick instruments great store,His harp, his cithar[*] OED: Any of various plucked stringed instruments similar in form to, or believed to have derived from, the cithara (citing Adamson), and mandore[*] OED: A large early form of mandolin (citing Adamson),His peircing arrowes and his quiver:But Cupid shot him through the liverAnd set him all up in à flame,To follow à Peneïan Dame:But being once repudiatDid lurk within this Cabinet,And there with many a sigh and groane,Fierce Cupids wrong he did bemoane,But this deep passion to rebetVenus bestow'd her Amulet,The firie flame for to beare downe,Cold lactuce and pupuleum;And thenceforth will'd the poplar treeTo him should consecrated be.With twentie thousand pretious things,Mercurius gave his staffe and wings:And more this Cabine to decore,Of curious staffs he gave fourescore,Of clubs and cudgels contortized:Some plaine worke, others crispe and frized,Like Satyrs, dragons, flying fowles,Like fishes, serpents, cats, and owles,Like winged-horses, strange Chimaeraes,Like Unicorns and fierce Pantheraes,So livelike that a man would doubt,If art or nature brought them out.The monstrous branched great hart-horne,Which on Acteon's front was borne:On which doth hing his velvet knapsca[*]Scots: A kind of close-fitting metal defensive headpiece, a metal skull-cap, commonly worn under a bonnet or other fabric covering (DSL). Parkinson: Writing to his father-in-law Andrew Simson, James Carmichael recalled how, in 1560, as schoolmaster of Perth, Simson led the forces of reform ‘with the reade knapska’ (Wodrow Misc., pages 441–2, qtd in Durkan, 132)..A scimitare cut like an haksaw[*]i.e. hacksaw. OED: A saw with a narrow fine-toothed blade set in a frame, used esp. for
cutting metal, citing Adamson,Great bukies[*]DOST: The shell of a whelk or other mollusc, partans[*]DOST: crab, toes of lapstares,Oster shells, ensignes for tapsters,Gadie[*]Gaudy beeds and crystall glasses,Stones, and ornaments for lasses,Garlands made of summer flowres,Propin'd him by his paramoürs,With many other pretious thing,Which all upon its branches hing:So that it doth excell but scorneThe wealthie Amaltheanhorne[*]Amalthea ("tender goddess"), nursed and nurtured Zeus. In some versions she suckled him in the form of a female goat, and in others, she is a nymph who gives Zeus milk from a goat. In both cases, Zeus broke off one of the goat horns, which became the cornucopia, or horn of plenty (Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology). .This Cabine containes what you wish,No place his ornaments doth misse,For there is such varietie,Looking breeds no sacietie.In one nooke stands Loquhabrian axes[*]DOST: Lochaber-ax(e), n. A variety of long-handled battle-axe, described as having a single elongated blade, appar. originating in the
Highland district of Lochaber.
,And in another nooke the glaxe[*]glaxe OED, glaik, n., sense 3, ‘A child’s toy or puzzle’, citing W. Gregor’s note on Dunbar’s use of glaiks (65.497): ‘I have seen a toy called ‘the glaykis’ which was composed of several pieces of notched wood fitted into each other in such a manner that they can be separated only in one way.’ is.Heere lyes a book they call the dennet,There lyes the head of old Brown Kennet,[*]A Kennet is a small hunting dog (DOST). Possibly the name of a “defunct” hunting dog, whose head was preserved in some way.Here lyes a turkasse[*]Turkis. Scots: a pair of smith's pincers, and a hammer,There lyes a Greek and Latine Grammer,Heere hings an auncient mantua bannet[*]i.e. bonnet. OED: A hat or cap of a kind traditionally worn by men and boys; esp. a soft,
round, brimless cap resembling a beret; a tam-o'-shanter. Now chiefly
Scottish.,There hings a Robin and a Iannet,[*]DOST cited Adamson but can provide no definitionUpon a cord that's strangularA buffet stoole[*]OED: A low stool; a footstool. Now only Scottish and northern dialect. In
the 15th cent. described as a three-legged stool sexangular:A foole muting in his owne hand;[*]
lines 105-108. Parkinson: The earthy image is dispelled with an allusion to Proverbs 27.22; raising and suppressing interest in bodily functions is characteristic of ‘M. George’, as in the outcomes of his account of a horn-blowing competition, XXI.61–76.Soft, soft my Muse, sound not this sand,What ever matter come athorter[*]Athwart,Touch not I pray the iron morter.His cougs,[*]A wooden vessel made of hooped staves (DOSL) his dishes, and his caps[*]A wooden bowl or dish (DOST).,A Totum,[*]Parkinson: a four-sided disk with a letter transcribed on each side: T totum, A aufer, D depone and N nihil. The disk was spun like a top, the player’s fortune being decided by the letter uppermost when the disk fell’ (DOST).
and some bairnes taps[*]A child's spinning-top (DOST, citing Adamson);A gadareilie,[*]Parkinson: not in DOST or OED. Related to gaud, ‘a plaything, toy … a gewgaw’ (OED, gaud, n.2, sense 2)? Or DOST, gade, n1, sense 3, ‘A bar of wood’? See DOST, (rele,) reil(l, n., sense 1b, ‘A reel on to which cord or rope may be wound up in a controlled manner …’; or sense 2, ‘A whirling or turning motion; an action that communicates such motion; a roll or stagger.’
and a whisle,A trumpe, an Abercome mussell,[*]Could be either a mussel or a muzzle (both senses in the DOST)His hats, his hoods, his bels, his bones,His allay bowles, and curling stones,The sacred games to celebrat,Which to the Gods are consecrat.And more, this cabine to adorne,Diana gave her hunting horne,And that there should be no defect,God Momus gift did not inlake[*]inlaik, v. to be deficient; to come or run short; to be wanting or missing (DOST):Only * * *,[*]Parkinson: possibly Eris, giver of the golden apple of discord that led to the Judgement of Paris and hence the Trojan War
was to blameWho would bestow nothing for shame;This Cabine was so cram'd with storeShe could not enter at the doore.This prettie want for to supplieA privie parlour,[*]An apartment in a monastery set aside for conversation (DOST)
stands neere byIn which there is in order plac'tPhœbus with the nine Muses grac't,In compasse, siting like a crown.This is the place of great renown:Heere all good learning is inschrynd,And all grave wisedome is confin'd,Clio with stories ancient times,Melpomené with Tragick lines,Wanton Thalia's comedies,Euterpe's sweetest harmonies,Terpsichore's heart-moving cithar,Lovely Erato's numbring meeter,Caliope's heroick songs,Vranias heavenly motions;Polymnia in various musickPaints all with flowres of Rhetorick,Amidst sits Phœbus laureat,Crown'd with the whole Pierian State.Here's Galene and Hippocrates,Divine Plato and Socrates,Th' Arabian skill and exccellence,The Greek and Romane eloquence,With manie worthie worke and storieWithin this place inaccessorie.These models, in this Cabine plac'd,Are with the world's whole wonders grac'd:What curious art or nature framd,What monster hath beene taught or tamd,What Polycletus in his time,What Archimedes rich ingine,Who taught the Art of menadrie[*]The sub-discipline of mechanics pertaining to machines that leverage force, such as cranes and pulleys. See Jessica Wolfe, Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (CUP, 2004), p. 59.The Syracusan synedrie.What Gods or mortals did forth bringIt in this cabinet doth hing,Whose famous relicts are all flowr'd,And all with precious pouldar stowr'd:And richly deckt with curious hingers,Wrought by Arachne's nimble fingers.This is his store-house and his treasure,This is his Paradise of pleasure,This is the Arcenall of Gods,Of all the world this is the oddes:This is the place Apollo chuses,This is the residence of Muses:And to conclude all this in one,This is the RomainePantheon.
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)When ended were our songs with perfite close,We thought it best to merrie be in prose;Then seriously and truely to discourse,Of diverse maters grave, we fell by course,But chiefly of this blinde worlds practice bad,
Contempt of learning.Preferring unto learning any trade.For these evill times hold not in such accountMen learned, as the former ages wont:But if the worth of learning well they knew,Good Gall (quoth I) they would make much of you,In Poetrie so skild, and so well redWhat a Poet can do.In all antiquitie, what can be saidWhereof you fluently can not discourse,Even like the current of this rivers course?Things absent you can present make appear,And things far distant; as if they were near,Things senselesse unto them give sense can yee,And make them touch, taste, smell, and heare, and see:What can not Poets do? They life can giveAnd after fatall stroke can make men live;29And if they please to change their tune or note,They'le mak mens names on earth to stink and rote.Who did fixe Hercules amongst the stars?And Diomedes for his wit in warsMade equall to the gods? But odiousFor vice Thersites vile, and Sisyphus?These were th'immortall muses, who do sing,As vice and vertue do their subjects bring,Therefore this counsell wisedome doth impart you,Flee filthie vice and intertaine fair vertue.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)Upon a Fragment of one of these is the
Lion catching at his Prey; upon another the Statue of Hercules,
with the Lions Skin cast over his Left Arm.