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

[ Previous ][ Next ]

Richard Rawlinson (3 Feb 1690 - 6 Apr 1755)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23192 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rawlinson Relevant locations: Member of St John's College (Oxford), Oxford University
 Relationships: Richard Rawlinson was a unspecified to Thomas Hearne (1678 [bap.]-1735)

Thomas Wilson (c. 1702-1761) was a source of object(s) for Richard Rawlinson
Linked manuscripts: as Previous owner - Rawlinson D 108, Bodleian Library,
as Previous owner - Rawlinson D 391, Bodleian Library,
Linked manuscript items: as Scribe (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - "An exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School transcribed from the original copy in Mr. Tho: Hearnes hands by me R. Rawlinson Octobr. 1709," Bodleian Library Rawlinson C 865, Oxford University
 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

A.D. 1757

Richard Rawlinson Esq. LLD, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, left the Museum models of two kinds of small Venetian boat, one known as a Paeota, the other a Gondola. He also gave a white Moscovy fox. To these he added an Indian litter called a palanquin.

An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865)
monogram: reversed R back to back with regular R, probably R. Rawlinson who transcribed this
A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. (Rawlinson Q.e. 36) Mr Rawlinsen of St. John's Gave Half a crown of King James. Irish Money. Brass. A Brass Medall of K. Ja Q. Mary Π. On ye Reverse, over a Rose, Ex candore Decus. A Dutch Medall of Brass, on one side veneranda minerva, and on the Reverse Pietate & Justitia.