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

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Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

THEThe Leg of a Web-footed anonimous Palmipede. The Coulter-Neb, or Puffin. Clusius's Anas Arctica, a Sea-Fowl, yet found alive upon the Moors near Hallifax, and sent me thence by Dr. Threapland. The Bones of the Heads of two very different Birds, the sharp pointed, and the broad-beak'd. The Wing-bone of the Elk or wild Swan. The Leg of a Stork. The Foot of a Soland Goose from Scotland; they breed in no Place about Britain, but the Basse Island in Edinburgh Frith. The Coot or Fulica of Kin to the Water-Hen, shot upon the River Are at Leedes. Don. D. Gul. Cookson Merc.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Scapula, or Fin of a Whale 3 ½ Foot long, and about four broad at the Skirt. A Rib of a Whale. Don. Gul. Cookson Arm. Prætor. Leod. The Pizle of a Whale, in Length a Yard and a Quarter, and at the Glans above a Foot round, though now shrunk up and hard as Horn. A round Bone of a Whale seven Inches Diameter, but little more than one thick. Don. D. Fran. Place.Whale-Bone as it grows under the Tongue of the Whale. Don. D. Geo. Lumley. The Gill of a Grampus (Grand-poise, Magnus piscis) taken about the Yorkeshire Coast, a Foot long; the Fish it self was 19 Yards in Length. Part of the Fin of another great Fish, vulgarly called a Bottle-Nose, 25 of which were at once cast upon the said Shore. The Tooth of a large Fish cast up near Hull, seven Inches long, and six in Circumference. A Sample of white and of the black Skin.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a Callendar curiously writ & painted by a man without hands, viz. Mathias Buckinger of Koningsberg Ano 1700. D. Gul: Cookson Merc: