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Canterbury Cathedral Library and Archives
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View Larger MapDescription of institution: Houses a large remnant of John Bargrave's collection, including three intact cabinets of Bagrave's coins (some via Meric Casaubon) and other artefacts and naturalia. Images linked to this location:
People associated with this location: Bargrave, John (1610-1680) - Housed collection or remnant at
Canterbury Cathedral Library (-) -
Casaubon, Méric (14 Aug 1599-14 Jul 1671) - Housed collection or remnant at
Parker, Matthew (1504-1575) - Title (royalty or holy order)
Manuscripts linked to this location: Current location at - "Bargrave Miscellaneous Papers," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "[Canterbury Cathedral Catalogue of the Bargrave Collection]," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc LA/1/16," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc LA/1/24," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E15," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16a," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16b," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16c," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E16d," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E39a," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E39b," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA DCc Lit. Mss. E39c," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "CCA-U11/8," Canterbury Cathedral
Manuscript Items linked to this location: Current location at - "[coin catalogue]," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana," Canterbury Cathedral
Current location at - "The Schedule conteyning the severall old Coynes and Rarities mencened in the deed hereunto annexed," Canterbury Cathedral
Housed collection or remnant at - "[Memo concerning Meric Casaubon's coins to the Canterbury Cathedral]," Canterbury Cathedral
Past Location at - "[Memo concerning Meric Casaubon's coins to the Canterbury Cathedral]," Canterbury Cathedral
Subject of discourse or work of art - "Numismata Cassauboniana: A Schedule in the Cabanett of Dr Cassobans Guift of Ancient Coines or Medalls," Canterbury Cathedral
Print Sources linked to this location: Current location at - Dialoghi di D. Antonio Agostini arcivescovo di Tarracona intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita tradotti di lingva spagnvola in italiana da Dionigi Ottaviano Sada e dal medesimo accresciuti con diuerse annotationi, & illustrati con disegni di molte medaglie e di altre figure.
Current location at - Imperatorum romanorum numismata, a Pompeio magno ad Heraclium.
Current location at - Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata a Pompeo Magno ad Heraclium.
Current location at - The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples.
Subject of discourse or work of art - Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness.
Linked Objects: Current location at - 2 Red/ Brown Beads
Current location at - Agate Banded Cornelian
Current location at - Agate Cornelian
Current location at - Agate Persian Bow Ring
Current location at - Arabic Money
Current location at - Asclepius
Current location at - Assorted stones, gems and pastes
Current location at - A volume of 216 engravings
Current location at - Bargrave MS Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana
Current location at - Bargrave's Medals
Current location at - Bargrave's organ
Current location at - Bead and Pebble
Current location at - Blue Gems and Stones
Current location at - Blue Glass Rod
Current location at - Bone Disc Fragment
Current location at - brass dolphin
Current location at - Bronze Disk with Shield
Current location at - Bronze Eagle
Current location at - Bronze Figure and Cherub
Current location at - Bronze Key
Current location at - Bronze Knucklebone
Current location at - Bronze phallic pendant with large suspension-loop
Current location at - Bronze phallic pendant with suspension loop
Current location at - Bronze Rounded Pendant
Current location at - Bronze Seal-Matrix
Current location at - Bronze Spoon
Current location at - Bronze Tobacco Stopper
Current location at - Bust of Nero
Current location at - Centaur Plaque
Current location at - Chameleon
Current location at - Chamois Horns
Current location at - Cinders and Pumice from Etna
Current location at - Circular Sard
Current location at - Coiled Snake
Current location at - Coin with Horse and
Current location at - Coloured Stones
Current location at - Confetti di Tivoli
Current location at - Coral padlock and key
Current location at - Cornelian Octagon
Current location at - Cupids and Mask
Current location at - Dancing Lar
Current location at - Dark Intaglio
Current location at - Embellished Wooden Bead
Current location at - Escaping Handle
Current location at - Female Priest with Patera
Current location at - Figure leading and crowning an Ox
Current location at - Flat Cornelian
Current location at - Foil Medal
Current location at - Folio of Medals
Current location at - Fossils and Shells
Current location at - Four Pieces of Green Stone
Current location at - Four Quartz Crystals
Current location at - Four Roman Pastes
Current location at - Four Shark's Teeth (undated)
Current location at - Four Small Round Boxes
Current location at - Frenchman's Finger
Current location at - French playing cards;
Current location at - Fungia Coral
Current location at - Gold Ring
Current location at - Granite and Cinder
Current location at - Green Gems, Beads and Stones
Current location at - Green Glass
Current location at - Gypsum Crystal
Current location at - Hazelnut Miniature Garden
Current location at - Head of Satyr
Current location at - Heartshaped green stone plaque
Current location at - Heart Shaped Plaque
Current location at - Hercule Mingens
Current location at - Hippopotamus Tooth
Current location at - Indian tobacco pipe
Current location at - Iron Shod Slippers, large
Current location at - Iron Shod Slippers, medium
Current location at - Iron Shod Slippers, small
Current location at - Italian manuscript
Current location at - Italian Manuscript
Current location at - Italian manuscript, Supplimenti d’alcuni Cardinali
Current location at - Italian playing-cards
Current location at - Jet Beads
Current location at - Job's Tears Rosary
Current location at - Key with Crescent Detail
Current location at - Knitted Cotton Pouch
Current location at - Lachrymatory
Current location at - Large Ebony Ring
Current location at - Large Hercules
Current location at - Large Leather Drawstring Purse
Current location at - Large Quartz Crystal
Current location at - Leather Drawstring Pouch
Current location at - Leather Pouch
Current location at - Leda and Swan
Current location at - Lens
Current location at - Lodestone in Textile Bag
Current location at - Long Red Leather Boots
Current location at - Loop of Brown Seeds
Current location at - Lozenge of polished marble
Current location at - Macrame Drawstring Purse
Current location at - Marble of Mila
Current location at - medal of the Prince of Orange
Current location at - Medieval Bronze Pen
Current location at - Metal ore
Current location at - Model of Human Eye
Current location at - Mother of Pearl Purse
Current location at - Mottled Jasper
Current location at - Native American Armbands
Current location at - Native American Belt
Current location at - Native American Neck Ornament
Current location at - Necklace of Beads with Silver Thread
Current location at - Necklace of Grey and Orange Beads
Current location at - Necklace of Pink and Olive Beads
Current location at - Olive Green Jasper
Current location at - Opaque Blue Glass
Current location at - Opaque Brown Glass Rod
Current location at - Orange and Yellow Gems, Beads and Stones
Current location at - Ornamental Red Stones
Current location at - Oval Bloodstone
Current location at - Oval Blue Green Glass
Current location at - Oval Box containing Volcanic Ash
Current location at - Oval Box marked
Current location at - Oval Box with figure of a Lady (undated)
Current location at - Oval Cornelian
Current location at - Oval Flat Cornelian
Current location at - Oval Garnet
Current location at - Oval Sard
Current location at - Padlock with Concealed Keyhole
Current location at - Palm Nut
Current location at - Pegasus Cornelian
Current location at - Perforated Spoon
Current location at - Phallic Pendant
Current location at - Phallic Pendant
Current location at - Phallic Token
Current location at - Phallic Token
Current location at - Pig or Boar Tooth
Current location at - Pilgrim Cockleshell Ribbon
Current location at - Pilgrim Orange Ribbon
Current location at - Pilgrim Pink Ribbon
Current location at - Pilgrim White Ribbon (in two parts)
Current location at - Pine cone with hole at top
Current location at - Pink Pendant
Current location at - Pocket Sundial
Current location at - Polished Marble
Current location at - Portrait of Bargrave with Alexander Chapman and John Raymond
Current location at - portrait of John Bargrave
Current location at - Portrait of John Bargrave
Current location at - Portrait of King of Algiers
Current location at - Portraits of Cardinals
Current location at - Portraits of the Pope and Sixty-Six Cardinals
Current location at - Priest with Patera (a) and Pedestal (b)
Current location at - Red Gems, Beads and Stones
Current location at - Red marble heart shaped plaque
Current location at - Ring with Hebrew Posy
Current location at - River Tiber Coral Relief
Current location at - Roman Lamp
Current location at - Roman Stylus
Current location at - Romulus
Current location at - Rosary of Dark Brown Beads
Current location at - Rosary of White Beads
Current location at - Rosary of Wooden Beads
Current location at - Round Box with Flower Decoration
Current location at - seven spherical glass eyes
Current location at - Signet Ring
Current location at - Silver Mount for a Pendant, 8 Petals
Current location at - Silver Pendant
Current location at - Small Hercules Juvenis
Current location at - Small Oval Box
Current location at - Sphinx Chalcedony
Current location at - Stiletto Dagger
Current location at - String of Wampum Beads
Current location at - Terminal or Pommel
Current location at - Three Pieces of Pottery
Current location at - Transparent Glass Bead
Current location at - Transparent Glass Gems
Current location at - treatise on ancient coins
Current location at - triangular lodestone
Current location at - Two ancient spoons
Current location at - two oval glass eye
Current location at - Two Pairs of Mussel Shells
Current location at - Two Pieces Red Marble
Current location at - Two small stones, a fossil shell and a fragmentary bone plaque
Current location at - Venetian Lanthorn
Current location at - Water turned into Stone
Current location at - White Chalcedony
Current location at - White Stone
Current location at - Worm Eaten Wood
Current location at - Yellow Stud
Originating Location (object) - Bargrave MS Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana
Past Location at - 10 beads of various materials
Past Location at - 13 green stones
Past Location at - 1 square purple stone
Past Location at - 20 to 30 intaglios
Past Location at - 27 brown stones of various forms
Past Location at - 2 blank gems
Past Location at - 2 little Pin cushions
Past Location at - 2 onyxes
Past Location at - 2 pieces of pastos anticos
Past Location at - 2 small pieces of gold
Past Location at - 2 yellow stones
Past Location at - 30 stones for rings
Past Location at - 36 white stones of various forms
Past Location at - 3 High Dutch coins
Past Location at - 3 stone padlocks
Past Location at - 4 black stones
Past Location at - 4 cameos for rings
Past Location at - 4 semi-precious ring-stones, 1 onyx bezel, 2 other prepared bezels and a blue stone
Past Location at - 5 carved fragments of mother-of-pearl
Past Location at - 7 fragments of antique gems
Past Location at - 9 blue stones
Past Location at - a gold enamel seal with a woman cut in stone
Past Location at - A lapis stellaris like a heart
Past Location at - Alexander with Bucephalus's head
Past Location at - Ancient Roman Lamp
Past Location at - a periwinkle shell
Past Location at - A piece of coral
Past Location at - a piece of cut amethyst
Past Location at - A piece of earth from Roma subterranea
Past Location at - A right hand from a small coral crucifix
Past Location at - A round Frame of wood belonging to Medallion XXIV
Past Location at - a silver Medal of Pope Innocent X
Past Location at - A silver piece of Charles I of England
Past Location at - assorted pastes or stones
Past Location at - Athens owl with Minerva
Past Location at - a turquois
Past Location at - Augustus cum Concordia, in brass
Past Location at - Augustus with Agrippa
Past Location at - Bacchanalian of the feast of the gods, in brass
Past Location at - bear skin
Past Location at - black-and-white pebble
Past Location at - bloodstone ring
Past Location at - blue and yellow knit purse full of High German money
Past Location at - blue stone out of the mines of Tyrol
Past Location at - box of pictures
Past Location at - box of pictures of the king's passion
Past Location at - Box of Turkish Aspers (coins)
Past Location at - box with geese and ducks
Past Location at - broken candlestick of serpentine stone
Past Location at - broken gold ring
Past Location at - Bronze mount, standing saint or virgin with clasped hands
Past Location at - bronze ring in the shape of a hand grasping a phallus
Past Location at - canvas bag containing several memorials of travels
Past Location at - canvas bag of silver minerals
Past Location at - Carved ivory head, Christ on one side, a Death’s Head on the other
Past Location at - cast marble table from Rome
Past Location at - chamois or gemps
Past Location at - Chinese Books
Past Location at - Clay Disc
Past Location at - Collection of maps
Past Location at - confused picture [used with optical equipment]
Past Location at - cylinder
Past Location at - cylinder [optical Equipment]
Past Location at - Diui Julij wth his Lituus, in brass
Past Location at - divers papers and writings
Past Location at - Eagle Stone
Past Location at - emperor's figure in clay
Past Location at - Entrails of a silkworm
Past Location at - ΕΛΕΝΗ ΛΗΛΛΙΑ ΣΡΑΡΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ [check]
Past Location at - fork
Past Location at - Fossils of shells
Past Location at - fossil tooth
Past Location at - fragments of crystal
Past Location at - fragments of white chalk
Past Location at - fragments of white fossil-shell
Past Location at - From Madonna di Loretto
Past Location at - garnet stone with inset image of a Greek head
Past Location at - Gilt-bronze harness-bell or sheep-bell
Past Location at - Glass samples
Past Location at - gold medal of Emperor Fardinand III
Past Location at - green silk and silver scarf from Naples
Past Location at - Head of Alexander VII with a soldier and a lion, in brass
Past Location at - Head of Alexander VII with his cloister, in brass
Past Location at - Head of Aristippus, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Cicero, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Cyrus, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Julius Romanus, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Junius Brutus, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Louis XIV of France in brass
Past Location at - Head of Marius, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Michael Angelo, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Monsieur de Liergue
Past Location at - Head of Raphael Urbins, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Roma, in brass
Past Location at - Head of Scipio Africanus, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Seneca, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Socrates, in brass
Past Location at - Head of Solon, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Solon, in lead
Past Location at - Head of Sulla, in lead
Past Location at - Head of the Queen Mother of France, in lead
Past Location at - hens and chickins in wax in a box
Past Location at - Hercules with the 12 figures of the Zodiac
Past Location at - High Dutch woman in wax in a box
Past Location at - inlaid High Dutch powder flask
Past Location at - instrument
Past Location at - Iron padlock, rusted
Past Location at - Italian Manuscript
Past Location at - Italian Manuscript
Past Location at - Italian Manuscript
Past Location at - Janus, very ancient
Past Location at - Jet ring
Past Location at - jubilee piece in silver of Porta Sancta
Past Location at - Julius Caesar, in brass
Past Location at - Junius Brutus, in lead
Past Location at - Lachrymatory
Past Location at - large silver medal of the young Prince of Orange
Past Location at - leather purse with about 25 silver and brass Roman coins
Past Location at - leather purse with beads
Past Location at - little red box with the twelve Caesars and other medals
Past Location at - malachite stones
Past Location at - Manuscript of the conclaves or intrigues of the elections
Past Location at - [mechanical] cat
Past Location at - [mechanical] mouse
Past Location at - [mechanical] tiger
Past Location at - medal of Alexander VII
Past Location at - Medal with figure of two unidentified young faces
Past Location at - Medal with figure of two unidentified young faces
Past Location at - optical instrument
Past Location at - optic glass [optical equipment]
Past Location at - Oval medal in brass, subject unknown
Past Location at - oval white box
Past Location at - oval white box with 58 Greek and Roman medals and other antiquities
Past Location at - Pale brown ribbon
Past Location at - Persian tweezer
Past Location at - pestle and morter
Past Location at - Picture with a confused image
Past Location at - Piece of Constantine's Triumphal Arch
Past Location at - Piece of Cumaean Sibyl's grotto
Past Location at - Piece of Grotta del Cane
Past Location at - Piece of mosaic from St. Mark's Church
Past Location at - Piece of Septimius Severus Triumphal Arch at Rome
Past Location at - Piece of the Arch of Titus
Past Location at - Piece of the Colosseum at Rome
Past Location at - piece of white stone with a red surface
Past Location at - Piscina Mirabilis
Past Location at - pistol of France (coin)
Past Location at - pistol of Sede Vacante (coin)
Past Location at - pistol of the Prince of Orange (coin)
Past Location at - Pompey the Great, in lead
Past Location at - Queen Mother of France and Louis XIV as a child, in brass
Past Location at - red and white jasper ball
Past Location at - ring squint
Past Location at - Ring with Bargrave's uncle's seal
Past Location at - round box of about 100 false stones
Past Location at - salt cellar
Past Location at - scraps of blue-green paste or stone
Past Location at - seven pieces of gold
Past Location at - Seven Pieces of Stone
Past Location at - several Hungarian, Bohemian, High Dutch, Italian, and Latin books
Past Location at - several serptents' teeth turned to stone
Past Location at - silver coin of the Coronation of the King of Bohemia
Past Location at - silver spoon
Past Location at - small false rubies
Past Location at - some asbestos
Past Location at - standish
Past Location at - steel chain
Past Location at - stones
Past Location at - stones adn coins wrapped in a paper
Past Location at - stork
Past Location at - Thales, in brass
Past Location at - The first seventeen Caesars, in medals
Past Location at - The Townhouse in Lyons
Past Location at - The Townhouse in Lyons, in lead
Past Location at - Thirteen gold ducats of Hungary
Past Location at - Three naked graces, in brass
Past Location at - tiny bits of red stone
Past Location at - tiny red cloth pendant
Past Location at - Titian, in lead
Past Location at - Titus, in gold
Past Location at - Trajan hearing the petition of the poor woman
Past Location at - trumpet of barks of trees
Past Location at - Two iron rings
Past Location at - two large pots and a smaller one
Past Location at - two models for chamber fountains
Past Location at - Two Pan's heads, or priapus
Past Location at - two wax figures
Past Location at - Venus and Cupid in wax in a box
Past Location at - Wooden "optic" Eye
Past Location at - Wooden ox's eye
Other Links: http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/conservation/archives/
Notes: Archives website http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/bargrave/
Notes: Bargrave collection website