The John Bargrave Collection
Elizabeth Bland (c.1660 - c. 1712)
Alias Elizabeth FisherHebraist. According to the OED, "Elizabeth Bland is known only by a phylactery in Hebrew written at the request of the Yorkshire antiquary Ralph Thoresby for his Musaeum Thoresbianum, to which she also presented a ‘Turkish commission’. ... She taught Hebrew to her son and daughter. It appears from Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis that Bland was alive in 1712, but her precise death date is unknown."
Nehemiah Grew describes a phylactery in the Royal Society's repository as a scroll of parchment ¼ inch broad and 15 inches long, with four sentences of the law (Exodus 8: 7–11, 13–17; Deuteronomy 6: 3–10; and Deuteronomy 11: 13–19) "most curiously written upon it in Hebrew" (Grew, 681).
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2606?docPos=2 Roles: Artisan or Craftsman - creator
Authority - early modern
Correspondent
Relevant locations: Residence at Beeston
People linked to person: Elizabeth Bland was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Elizabeth Bland was a source of object(s) for Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Nathaniel Bland (-fl. 1716) was a husband of Elizabeth Bland
Franciscus Mercurius Van Helmont (20 Oct 1614-30 Nov 1698) was a source of information for Elizabeth Bland