A catalogue of all the cheifest rarities in the publick theater and Anatomie-Hall, of the University of Leyden, by Gerrard Blancken, which are so set in order that all may easily bee found in their places. Sic erimus cuncti postquam nos auferet oreus

A catalogue of all the cheifest rarities in the publick theater and Anatomie-Hall, of the University of Leyden, by Gerrard Blancken, which are so set in order that all may easily bee found in their places. Sic erimus cuncti postquam nos auferet oreus

Table of contents

Title page

IN ANATOMICUM THEATRUM LUGD. BATAV.

§

THESE MAY BE SEEN IN THE ENTRANCE.

Aboue in The Anatomie Chamber.

About The Circle of The Theatre are placed Theſe. Following Rarities.

Theſe Following Rarities are about The boames, & Wal of the Theater.

In the Preſſe. A. on the North ſide are the Following rarities.

In the Preſſe B.

In the Preſſe are as follo weth.

In the Caſe D.

In The Cupboard E.

In The Caſe F.

In The Phreſſe G.

In the Caſe H.

In the Caſe I.

In the Cſe K.

In the great Cupboard. L. on the North ſide of the Anatomie.

In the Cupoad M.

Ʋnderneath in the Circuit may be ſeen

§

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A CATALOGUE Of all the cheifeſt RARITIES In the Publick THEATER and ANATOMIE-HALL, Of the Univerſity of LEYDEN, BY GERRARD BLANCKEN, Which are ſo ſet in order that all may eaſily bee found in their Places.

Sic erimus cuncti poſtquam nos auferet orcus.

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Printed in Leyden, By HUBERT vander BOXE, 1697.

IN ANATOMICUM THEATRUM LUGD. BATAV.

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Advena, qui Batavas ſpectatum veneris oras,

Huc age, quae ſtupeas inclyta Leyda dabit,

Huc ubi Legiferam Cererem comitatur Oſiris,

Iſidos Argolicae ſuſpice ſigna Deae;

Fruſtra Deum fragilis Fortunae idola profana,

Urnam, quae cineres relligioſa notet.

Lampada, ad humanos quae non pervenerit uſus,

Cui magis in cultu, cui magis apta Deum!

Vixerit aeternae tantum ſe paſta lucernae

Flammula, an inviſae larva ſit illa rei?

Quâ lacererit acu, qualem cui Fibula veſtem.

Vinxerit, unde ſagum ſtrinxerit, unde togam:

Divitis Aegypti pretioſa cadavera, lata

Finibus Eois, invidioſa Diis:

Singula noſſe juvet, tamen his & inania rerum,

Et maris, & terrae viſcera poſthabeas;

Erudit in cantum te vox facunda CRAMERI,

Et claram ambiguo praeſtat ubique facem.

Sic ſaecli penetrare ſinus, & viſcera veri.

Sic poteris Roma prodigiore frui.

CORN. à MAERSCHE.

§

THESE MAY BE SEEN IN THE ENTRANCE.

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1. Two heads of Elephants. D. D. Sopii & Adriana Paauw.

2. The four feet of an Elephant. E. Juſtus Heurinius.

3. Tigers and Leopard's Skins. by Pr. Maurits.

4. A great Oiſter-Schell weighing 150 pound.

5. The Bone of the hinder part of the head of a large old whale, D. Adr. Paauw.

6. The Head of an Elk, D. D. Jobi Paludoni.

7 The Skin and Horn of the Head of a Rhinoceros.

8 The Skin and Horns of a white Hart.

9. A Crocodile.

10. A Norway houſe built of beams without Morter or Stone.

11. The Skin of an Animall inhabiting Braſil called Tamandua Popa. D. Principi Mauritii.

12. The Snout of an Unknown Fish, from Braſil. D. G. Piſonis.

13. Some India Dats.

14. A Trumpet made of the Rinds of Trees in Muſcovy.

15. Muſcovian Bow.

16. A Pair of Polonian Boots.

17. A Leopard Skin.

18. A Pair of Laplan's Breeches.

19. A Lapland's Cunger drumme & a pair of Shooſe. given by Everhard Gnootsman.

20. Two Horns of an Outlandish Oxe.

21. A Muſcovian Monk's Hood.

22. A Cithern which the Coſſacks lightly armed make uſe of.

23. A Pair of Muſcovian Breeches & A Shirt.

24. A Pair of Stilts or Skates, with which the Norwegians, Laplanders and Finlanders run down high ſnowy mountaines, with almoſt an incredible ſwift pace. D. Arnol. Williams.

25. A Leather'n Boat, brought from the Straites of St. David.

26. Warlike arm's uſed in China.

27. A great Falchion or hooked ſword of the foreſaid Chinenſes.

28. The Halbard of the Snout of a Sawfish.

[Page] 29. A Chirurgeons Inſtrument called Gloſſocomium.

30. A Chaire of a Root of a Tree naturally grown ſo from Amboina. D. Pr. Carpentier.

31. The ſceleton of a young Whale, cutt out of the Old ones belly.

32. The Hide of a Sea Horſe▪ given by Pr. Maurits.

33. The Skin of an Al [...]e.

34. Swo Eaſt Indian Tygers. Gift of P. Carpentier.

35. A Bear. D. Daniels B [...]kheri.

36. The head of a Wild boar.

37. The Sceleton of an Eagle.

38 A Civet-Cat. by Dn. D. Theod. Gnol.

39 A Ferret.

40. A Leopard.

41. A Chaire of a Midwife, by van Solingen.

42. A Modell of a Murthering-knife found in Engeland.

Aboue in The Anatomie Chamber.

1. Some monſtrous Bones.

2. Teeth of a Whale.

3. The Sceleton of a Bear.

About The Circle of The Theatre are placed Theſe. Following Rarities.

4. The Sceleton of a Cow.

5 The Sceleton of a Wolf.

6. The Sceleton of Baboon▪

7. The Sceleton of an Aſſe upon which ſit's a Womam that Killed her Daughter.

8. The Sceleton of a Cat.

9. The Sceleton a Woman of 17. Yeares old who mundered her ſon.

10▪ The Sceleton of an Hog. D. Dr. Bils.

11. The Sceleton of an Ape.

12. The Sceleton of a Tiger.

13 The Sceleton of a Buck-Goate.

14. The Sceleton of a Gardiner, that hang'd himſelf.

15. The Sceleton of a Bear.

[Page] 16 The Sceleton of an Hart.

17 The Sceleton of a Piget. Donum Piſonis.

18. The Sceleton of a Lepus Marinus a Fish inhabiting the muddieſt part of the Sea, and caſteth Snot out of it's mouth.

19 The Sceleton of a Dogge.

20. The Sceleton of a Sheep-ſtealer of Haerlem.

21 The Sceleton of an Horſe.

22. The Sceleton of a Pirat.

23 The Sceleton of a Sheep. D. Dr. Bils.

24 The Sceleton of a Gel [...]led Buck Goate.

25. The Sceleton of a Ferret.

26. The Sceleton of a Woman called Catharine of Hamburg, ſtrangled for theft.

27. The Sceleton of a Man, ſitting upon an ox executed for Stealling of Cattle. D. Dr. Bils.

28 The Sceleton of an Ape.

29 The Sceleton of a young Grey-Hound.

30 The Sceleton of a Dogge.

31. The Sceleton of an Otter.

32 The Sceleton of a Grey-Hound.

33 The Sceleton of a Patridge Dogg.

34 Two Blue coat ſouldiers in their Skins.

35. The Sceleton of a Captain ſervant, hanged in the Hague.

Theſe Following Rarities are about The boames, & Wal of the Theater.

36. The Covering of a great Mumie, upon which is engraven the Effigies of Ceres.

37 A Young Elephant's Head.

38. An Unknown Sea Fish.

39. A Sea Hedg hog.

40. The Sceleton of a Lapwing.

41. Two beaſts named Tatou. by Pr. Maurits.

42 The Head of a Sea-Calfe.

43. A Whale's Yard.

44. A Sawfish.

45. The Skin of a Man Tann'd.

46 A Piger. Don. Princ. Mauritii.

[Page] 47. A fish caught in the Haerlemmer Meer.

48. The Skin of a Ray, or Skate, from Angola.

49 A Formicam Vorans or Piſmire eater, by Princip. Mauritii.

50 An hound-fish.

51 A Crocodile. Donum Principis Mauritii.

52. The Bladder of a Man containing four Stoop (which is ſomething above two Eng-Gallons) of Water.

53. The Skin of a Man dreſſed as Parchment.

54 A Dea-Dog.

55. An Arm, a legg & the ſcull of a Thief hang'd.

56. The Effigies of a Pruſian Peſant. who Swallowed a Knife of ten inches Length, which was cut out of his Stomack, & he Lived Eight Years afterwards. Don. Dan. Beckeri.

57. The Entrailes of a Man of which is made a Shirt. Don. Dom. Johann. a Leeuwen.

58. The Skin of an Eaſt-Indian ſquirrell.

59. The Skin of a woman prepar'd like leather.

60. The Head of a Sword-Fish, enemy to the Wrhale. D. Dr. Boemaert.

61. A Whales Operator.

62. A Sea-Calfe.

63. A Sea ſtarlin.

64. A Sea-hedg-hog.

65. A Fish called, Orbis Piſcis which is like a Can with a great belly, of a Cheſnut colour, is unſavory meat.

66 The Sceleton of a Coney.

67. The Head of a wilde Boar.

68. The Sceleton of a Swan.

69. The Sceleton of a Cock.

70. The Sceleton of a Pigeon.

71. A Shield made of a Large Sea-tortice-shell. D. Job, ab Ilpendum. and A Kind of Baboon, called by the Dutch A B [...]sh Manueken. ſitting upon itt.

72. Sceleton of a Doue.

73. Two peeces of the beard of a young Whale, caught before Zirickzee.

74 Three great Snakes Skins.

75. The Bone of a Whales Taile.

76. The ribbs of Whale with ſome back bones.

77. The Skin of a childe when firſt born.

[Page] 78 Two Horſes Hides of China.

79. 4. or. 5. China Songs. D. P. de Carpentier.

80. The Wonderfull form of the Bladder & Stomach of the known Monſtrous-fish of Scheveling.

81. The Stomach of a Man, & of a Hogge.

82. Some Men's gutts.

83. The Inteſtines and Stomack of a Man.

84. Two Snouts of Sawfishes.

85. Some ſtrange ſea fishes.

86 Two Skins of Badgers.

In the Preſſe. A. on the North ſide are the Following rarities.

1. The Mumi of an Egyptian Prince aboue 1800. Yeares old. D. David de Willem.

2. The beck of the bird Rhinoceros. or, Topau. D. A. de Paeuw.

3. A White Box in which is unbleacht Egyptian Linnen.

4. A Role of White China paper. D. Michaelis Paeuwe.

5 A Stone of a Conſiderable bigneſſe, taken out of a maids kidneys. Don. Otto Heurnius.

6. A Corral Tree taken out of the Eaſt-Indian-ſea, D. I. de Laet.

7. Six ſtones taken out of the Bladder of old. Profeſſor. Joh. Heurn,

8. The bille of a ſtrange Bird.

9. Two Vertebrae out of the neck of a Rhinceros.

10. A great Jaſper-ſtone or Bloud-ſtone from Arabia.

11 A Pot in which is China Beer.

12. An Indian Sable.

13. A Roman Lamp which burnes alwayes under Ground.

14. Some Roman Urnes, a 1000. Yeares old. D. Danielis Giſii.

15. An Indian Crab-Fish. D. D. Johan. Dammaſii Buſſu.

16. An Hand of a Meermaide. D. Princ. Mauritii.

17. A Mushrom abroue 100. Yeares old. wich grew on the bank of the Haerlemer Meer. D. Petri Sceverii.

18 A Foot of a Sea-monſter D. Princ. Mauritii.

19. A Lizard's Skin from Braſile. D. Princ. Mauritii.

20. A Gold-Ring from China. D. Dr. Johan H [...]ogkamer.

21. The Head of a Rhinoceros.

22. The Wings of a Flying Fish.

[Page] 23. The Skin of an Indian Sqirril.

24. The Claw of an Eaſt-Indian Crab-Fish.

25. A Glaſſe containing the ſubſtance with which they were wont to preſerve Mumies.

26. A Tyger's Head. Don. Princ. Mauritii.

27. The Head of a Beaſt from the Eaſt Indies, called Carbirouſa, is halfe Hart and Halfe Hog, is bred in The Iland Celebes.

28 The Head of a Sea-hog, from Braſile. D. Guil. Piſo.

29 The Hand and Foot of a Mumie. D. Freder. Weſtphalink.

30 A Petrified Toad-Stool.

31 The Same

32. A Precious ſtone in Ethiopia, called Heliotropium.

33. Three Clawes the horn of a Young Rhinoceros.

34. An Egyptian Bean.

35. A Book printed with China Character's. D. Franciſci Porſijn.

36. A Thunder bolt, Given by Melchior de Moucheron.

37. The Arme of a great AEgyptian Heros.

38. A Dried Black arme.

In the Preſſe B.

39. A Man whole in his muſcles and tendons very curiouſly ſet up by Profeſſor Stalpert vander Wiel.

In the Preſſe are as follo weth.

1. The Sceleton of a New born-childe.

2. The Sceleton of a Mouſe.

3 The Sceleton of a Mole.

4 All the veines of a mans Liver.

5 A Flying hart, by Franciſcus Schutmans.

6. AN Abortus embalmed.

In the Caſe D.

1. An Egyptian Urn, in which is an Abortus Embalm'd, above a 1000. Yeares old.

2. A Viper or Flying Adder.

[Page] 3. An Egyptian Flie.

4▪ The Cheek Bone of a Mumie.

5. A Sea-Spider, from New. Yorke D. Hermanni Bloem.

6. Capriſcus Rhondeletii. 7. The veines of a Man's Liver.

8. An Egyptian Night-Owl.

9. A Little Box, wherein is ſome bloud of a Cocodile.

10 A Piece of Bread of a new and unknown meale.

11 A Maller, or hammer that the Savages in New Yorke, kill with. D. Hermanni Bloem.

12. AN Abortus embalmed.

13. A great heart Vein of a Man.

In The Cupboard E.

1 The Arme of an Aegyptian Mumie D. av. de Willem.

2 A Little bone taken out of the Pizzle of a W [...]lle.

3. A Little Stone lound in Eagles Neſts, called Ae [...]tes Lapillus.

4 A Stone taken out of the Stomack of a Gooſe, brought from the Straites of Magellane.

5. Lapis Nephruteus, or Gravel-ſtone.

6. A Stone found in the Head of a Sea-Calfe.

7. A Bone of the hearing of a Whale. D. Jacobi.

8. Cuculo, commonly called a Sea-Cock.

9. A ſmall bone taken out of the Penis of a Beaver.

10. The Bladder of a Dog.

11. The Bladder of a Man.

12. The Double Bladder of a Fish.

13 The Veines of the Liver.

14. A Drinking Cup of the Skull of a Moor, killed id in the Beleaguering of Haarlem.

15. The Sceleton of a Hedg-hog.

16. The Sceleton of a Frog. 17 The Sceleton of a Bittor.

18. A Young Crocodile from Egypt. D. Princ. Mauritii.

19 The Sceleton of a Water Rat.

20. The Sceleton of Chaffinch.

21. A Sheapheard's Pipe from the Iland Maltha. D. D. Johan. van Horne.

22. The Matrix

In The Caſe F.

1 A Woorden Effigies of Oſiris, whom the Egyptians worshipped as a God, it's now almoſt conſumed with age.

[Page] 2. An Image of Iſis, giving Suck tot her Son Orus.

3. An Egyptian Coffer in which are aromaticall ſpices, for preſerving of bodys, for Mumies.

4. Three Egyptian Idoles, made of ſtone.

5. A Drinking-Cup made of a Tortice-shell.

6. An eaſt Indian Serpent's Egges.

7. The Sceleton of a Mole.

8 The Veines of the Lungs.

9. Two ears of a thief hang'd.

10. The tongue of a thief hanged.

11. The heart of a Man.

12 The membrane of hearing.

13. The Wind pipe or throat of a Man.

14. The pine glandle.

15. The thumb of a Baſſa cutt of in the ſight of Newhuiſe, by Jonker Tierſe van Mecklenburg.

In The Phreſſe G.

1 A Brazen Effigies of Oſiris, the Egyptian God

2. A Water-Serpent.

3. The Arme of an Egyptian Hero, embalmd.

4 A Bone Embalmd.

5. A Little Egyptian Coffer upon which is engraven Iſi's Effigies, & in which is the heart of an Egyptian Prince, Embalm'd. D. D. de Will.

6. A Fish. called Schincus.

7 The Hip bone of a Giant. Don. Sam. Mutſenbroeck.

In the Caſe H.

1. The Arterys of the Lung's of a pig.

2. Two Idols made of Stone. D. David de Willem.

3. A Cruſe wrought in polished Marble.

4. A Triangular Fish. D. Mr. a Haſenbr [...]ck.

5. A Child in his muſcles and tendons.

In the Caſe I.

A young thief hanged being the Bridegom wheſe Bride ſtood under the gallows, very curiouſly ſet up in his ligiments, by P. S. v. Wiel, the younger.

In the Cſe K.

The Sceleton of a Child of fiy months.

In the great Cupboard. L. on the North ſide of the Anatomie.

1. The Mumie of an Egyptian Prince above 1300. Yeares D. Johannis Baptiſtis Bartoliti.

2. A Pair of Sandalls or Slippers from the Kingdome of Syam.

3. The Skin of an Indian Lizard.

[Page] 4. The Skin of a Molacca Moman aboue 150. Yeares old, by Richard. Su.

5. A Pair of Ruſſian Shoes.

6. Two Images out of the kingdom of Japan. D. Adriano Pauwe.

7▪ A Cheek Bone of a Dog Fish. 8 Lion's Heads.

9 An Urne, called Una Feralis Romana, where in the Romans preſerved the Aſshes of burnt bodies. D. Danielis Turreto.

10. A Woman's Pudenda.

11. A Roman Eartherne Veſſell. D. Danielis Gyſii.

12 A Guilded Copper Idol from Syam.

13. A China Pot. D. D. Jac. Speck.

14 A Box of white Powder, with which the Indians & Italians uſe to make the haire fall of.

15. The bough of a Tree fenced with a Stone. D. D. Harrewijn.

16. A Pair of Shoes-made of Man's Leather.

17. A Pair of Egyptian Sandalls. D. D. I. a Leeuwen.

18. An Indian Lamprey.

19. A Sea-Horſe out of the eaſt Indies. 20 A Flying Dragon.

21. Somme Strange Indian Fishes and a Flying Fish.

22. A Roman Lamp which burned eternally. D. D. Dan. Ghiſii.

23. A Roman Buckle.

24. A Piece of Rhubarb gown in shape of a Dog's Head. D. I. Hoogk.

25. A Lizard.

26. A Basket wherein are Crocodile eggs. D. Princ. Mauritii.

27. An Indian Sea-Spider.

28. The Liver of a Man, in which is grown aſtone like a ball.

29. The Rib of a Sheep, with three branches ſprouting out.

30. The Hearing Organ of a Man.

31. A Basket in which is Muſcovian and other Country money.

32. The Arteria Magna of a Man.

33. Some Egyptian Glaſſing Veſſels, or Cupping Veſſels.

34. The Sceleton of a Serpent, D. Ad. Bornii,

35. A Dish of Lapis Oſſifragus, or Fine bone-ſtone. D. Johan Nicola [...] Boumanni.

36. A Stone which was found on the Os Sacrum, or the great bone upon▪ which the Ridg bone reſteth.

37. A Glaſſe in wich are Cheina Figs.

38. A Ball called Meuſa, found in a Cow's Stomack.

39. A great Caſſia Fiſtula from Braſſile. D. Princ. Mauritii.

[Page] 40. A Box of Very Large Amber. D. Danielis Bleri.

41. An American Bean.

42. An Indian Knife.

43. An Indian Gilded Wooden-Cup. D. Do. Jac. a Stellingwerf.

44. A Black Fly called a Beetle brought from the Cape of Goodhope.

45 The Cranium, or Braine-pan of a Wolfe.

46 A Cup made of a Double Braine-Pan. D. Dr. de Bils.

47. Some Grown-Coral.

48. The Brain-pan of an Oſtrich.

49. A Ruff, or Mushrom of a very conſiderable greatneſſe.

50. A Sceleton of a childe newly borne.

51. The Sceleton of a childe but 4. moneths old in thee Womb.

52. The Image of the Goddeſſe Fortune. D. Danielis Gyiſi.

53. A great Stone found in the Body of a Woman of Vlarding being 90. Yeares old.

54. China shoes of a Mananda Woman.

55. The Sceleton of a twin.

56. The Sceleton of a Fondling.

57 A loaſ turn'd into ſtones.

In the Cupoad M.

1. Many Anatomy-Inſtruments left by Dr. van Solingen.

2. The Sceleton of a Man hang'd at Gouda nam'd Philip de Snyder.

3. The Monſtrons Sceleton of a Man with crooked hands & leggs by Prof. Nuck.

Ʋnderneath in the Circuit may be ſeen

in the great Caſe

all ſoris of beaſts, as Cats, Doggs, Rats, Moles, Squirrels &c.

Here after fallows a ſmall Chamber in, which is.

1. A French Noble-man who ravish't his ſiſter, and alſo murdered her, was beheaded at Paris, ad beſtowed on the Anatomie, by D. Bils.

2. The Sceleton of a Man on horſe-back. D. de Bils.

3. The Head of a Sea-horſe.

4. Three Fondelings in Their Skins.

5. A Man beheaded at Gouda very curiouſly ſet up, by Prof. Nuck.

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A catalogue of all the cheifest rarities in the publick theater and Anatomie-Hall, of the University of Leyden, by Gerrard Blancken, which are so set in order that all may easily bee found in their places. Sic erimus cuncti postquam nos auferet oreus

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— A catalogue of all the cheifest rarities in the publick theater and Anatomie-Hall, of the University of Leyden, by Gerrard Blancken, which are so set in order that all may easily bee found in their places. Sic erimus cuncti postquam nos auferet oreus, Blancken, Gerard. aut, Schuyl, Frans. aut, Maersche, Corn. à. aut, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Anatomisch Kabinet..

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by Hubert vander Boxe,. Printed in Leyden :: 1697.. (Blancken's revision of the Leiden catalogue ran into at least three editions before Francis Schuyl took over the revision.) (Title page woodcut.) (Includes a poem in Latin on the exhibits, signed: Corn. à Maersche.) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.