The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Ralph Thoresby, a Museum Visitor in Stuart England
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Periodical Title:Journal of the History of Collections [Great Britain] Publication Type:Journal Article Authors:Brears, P. C. D.Editors: Publisher: Place of Publication: Publication Date:1989 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume:1 Issue:2 Start Page:213 End Page:224 Abstract:As well as being a collector of some importance and an author on antiquarian and topographical matters, Ralph Thoresby was a compulsive diarist whose journal provides many firsthand insights into the world of collecting in England at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN:0954-6650 URL:http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/2/213.full.pdf
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Bibliographic Source(s): Material from the 'Museum' of Ralph Thor..., page: , notes: Discusses the remnant of Thoresby's collection.
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Annotation:Discusses Thoresby's familiarity with other collections, including those of Worm and Ludovico Moscardo (Verona) as described in Museum Wormianum (1655), Note overo memone del Museo di Lodovico Moscardo (1650, 1670, or 1672), and the Royal Society, as well as the physic garden at Leiden. Notes that Thoresby's collection has been almost entirely dispersed, but see Connell and Boyd.