A Turkey stone
Date
1690-91
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p101
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 364mm
width (page): 236mm
width (page): 236mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing embedded in text of a changing Turkey stone (tourquoise) in a ring. The author accounts buying the ring in March 1660, and describes how it changed colours over the following months. The image is part of 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wiltshire, to which are annexed observables of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire' by John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original, made by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, in 1690-91.
Object history
By John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original manuscript (1685). It was transcribed by B. G. Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, at the behest of the Society in 1690-91.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.
Related fellows
John Aubrey (1626 - 1697, British) , Antiquary
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