<h2>Documents</h2>

These are draft documents that will form the basis of phase one of the Digital Ark. They will eventually be fully indexed and searchable and linked to an authority-file database. For now, we present them as simple webpages, as they are ready. We will also be posting facsimile versions (in high quality images) of Ralph Thoresby's Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) and his Diary (1830) and Nehemiah Grew's Musaeum Regalis (1685), and the Tradescant's Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656).

Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)

• MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.)
• MS Book of the Senior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)
• MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.)
• MS Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.)
• MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.)
• MS Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.)

John Bargrave (1610-1680)

• MS Catalogue Lit MS E 16a
• Gentle Traveller (Curatorial)
• Authorial labels (Canterbury Cathedral MSS) [forthcoming]
• 18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16d)
• 18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16c)

Thomas (1604-1673) and Edward (1644-1708) Browne

• Musaeum Clausum (1684)
• Lists from British Library Sloane MSS 1911, 1912, 1913,1922 [forthcoming]
• Objects mentioned in correspondence [forthcoming]

Walter Cope (c. 1553-1614)

• excerpt from Thomas Platter's travel diary (1599)
• excerpt from Frederic Gerschow's diary of Philip Julius's visit to Cope's Museum (1602)

William Courten (1642-1702)

• Authorial account books (British Library Sloane 3961)

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

• An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865)
• [Inventory A: "Catalogus Rariourm"] (Oxford MS Rawlinson D. 912, fols. 201-2)
• [Inventory B] (Oxford MS Rawlinson D. 912, fols. 203-5)
• A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. (Rawlinson Q.e. 36)
• [Description of Oxford Anatomy School collection by Ole Borch]
• Olai Borrichii Itinerarium
• [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]
• [Description of Oxford Anatomy School collection by Heinrich Ludolff Benthem]
• See also Stirn, below

William (c.1610-1663) and Robert (1631-1683) Paston

• "Apartments in Oxnead Hall in Norfolk … Inventory" (British Library Add. 36988) [forthcoming]
• "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) [forthcoming]

Royal Society of London

• Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685)

George Ruthven (1546-1638)

• Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)

Georg Christoph Stirn (c.1616 - )

• Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nürnberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford.

Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

• Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

• A list of object sent to Thoresby, Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS19

• Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum

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)
• MacGregor, Tradescant's Rarities (1983) [forthcoming]

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.