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

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Arminian at Venice ( - )

Unidentified. Sold Bargrave a stone "toadstool" in Venice, possibly a dealer in curiosities Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Venice, Veneto
 References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(35). Item, a fair large toadstool or mushroom of stone, very weighty, which is not a mushroom petrified, but grew always a stone, in this shape and figure. I bought it of an Armenian at Venice, who had many more of them to sell, of several sorts of colours and bigness, and divers other stones of pretty forms and figures.