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

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Antiquarian at Rome ( - )

Unidentified dealer in antiquities from whom Bargrave acquired a "stylus" Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Rome, Italy
 Relationships: Antiquarian at Rome was a source of object(s) for John Bargrave (1610-1680)

 References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(36). Stylus Romanus. The antiquarian that sold it me avowed it to be truly ancient; but thousands may daily be made, this being but a piece of steel about the lenght length of one’s middle finger, like a bodkin, with a blunt point at one end and a flat on the other end, the edge rabated on both sides, so that with the one end one may make an impression upon paper or the bark of trees, and with the other end one may easily rub out or make smooth what had been written. So that vertere stylum was as much as to recant of such and such things as he had formerly written.