The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
A Brief Narrative of a Strange and Wonderful Old Woman that hath a Pair of Horns (1676)
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.)
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)
MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.)
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.)
MS Book of the Senior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.)
MS The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)
John Bargrave (1610-1680)
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16b)
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16c)
18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d)
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue)
A fragmented list of some objects (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
A list of some objects (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
A memo dated 28 April 1658 (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
A noate of the Legacye given by Dr.Bargraue to the Librarey of Xtchurch: Canterb:
(Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
Bargrave's Travel Diary (Canterbury Cathedral CCA U11/8)
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)
Bargrave's labels (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
Numismata Cassauboniana: A Schedule in the Cabanett of Dr Cassobans Guift of Ancient Coines or Medalls
(Canterbury Cathedral loose papers)
Andrew Belfour (1630-1694) and Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)
Auctarium Musaei Balfouriani (1697)
Thomas (1604-1673) and Edward (1644-1708) Browne
Musaeum Clausum (1684)
Lists from British Library Sloane MSS 1911, 1912, 1913,1922 [coming soon]
Objects mentioned in correspondence
Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614)
Frederic Gerschow's diary of Philip Julius's visit to Cope's Museum (1602)
Thomas Platter's travel diary (1599)
William Courten (1642-1702)
Courten's account books (British Library Sloane 3961) [coming soon]
John Evelyn (1642-1702)
Selections from his diary
Robert Hubert (fl. 1664-9)
A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664)
A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665)
A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669)
Oxford Anatomy School
Olai Borrichii Itinerarium
A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. (Rawlinson Q.e. 36)
An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865)
[Description of Oxford Anatomy School collection by Heinrich Ludolff Benthem]
[Description of Oxford Anatomy School collection by Ole Borch]
[Excerpt from Travel Diary of Jean Fontaine and Louis Schönbub]
[Excerpts from Zacharias Uffenbach's diary of his visit to Oxford in 1710 in the company of his brother Johann Friedrich Uffenbach]
[Excerpts from Zacharias Uffenbach's diary of his visit to Oxford in 1710, Gunther translation]
[Inventory A: Catalogus Rariourm] (Oxford MS Rawlinson D. 912, fols. 201-2)
[Inventory B] (Oxford MS Rawlinson D. 912, fols. 203-5)
William (c.1610-1663) and Robert (1631-1683) Paston
Apartments in Oxnead Hall in Norfolk ... Inventory (British Library Add. 36988) [coming soon]
Inventory of Ornamental Plate, &c formerly at Oxnead Hall (1844)
Rebecca Paston (d. 1694)
Curiosities, in Lady Paston's Closet (Pembroke College MSS LC. II. 230) [coming soon]
James Petiver (c. 1665-1718)
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706)
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703)
Royal Society of London
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)
George Ruthven (1546-1638)
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
Don Saltero
A Catalogue of the Rarities To be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House [1737]
A Catalogue of the Rarities To be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House [1775]
A catalogue of the arities to be seen at Don Saltero's coffee-house in Chelsea (1731)
Georg Christoph Stirn (c.1616 - )
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford]
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708
A note of transfer of objects from Ralph Thoresby's collection (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS19)
List of objects sent in a parcel to Ralph Thoresby (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS19)
Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
Relics of the First Marquis of Montrose
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764)
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
John Tradescant (elder, d. 1638 and younger, 1608-1662)
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656)
Peter Mundy's description of the Tradescants' Ark in his travel diary (1634)
William Walker (1608-1662)
A Cataloge of Rarities Belonging to William Walker (donated to Sir Hans Sloane (18th-c)
Francis Willughby (1635-1672)and John Ray (1627-1705)
Excerpts from Ornithology (1876) related to Sir Thomas Browne's and the Tradescants' collections
Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach's vist to London: Royal Society / Gresham College, James Petiver, John Woodward, Hans Sloane, and others
London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
British Curiosities in Nature and Art: Royal Society, Oxford University (Merton College, St. John College, the Anatomy School), Cambridge University (Trinity College) and others
British Curiosities in Nature and Art (1713)