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 Several heads cut on agates.

 Divers figures cut on shells.

 Variety of figures cut in crystals.

 Divers sorts of doublets.

 Divers sorts of ambers with flies, spiders natural.

 A bird sitting on a perch natural.

 Cornelian cup, amber cup and amber bottle, turned. A crystal bottle.

 Several things rarely cut in coral. […]

 Cornelian thumb cases of the Turks.

 Several curious paintings in little forms, very ancient.

 Spleen stones, divers sorts.

 The Indian lip stone which they wear in the lip.

 A little box with the 12 Apostles in it.

 A silver box with 6 divisions.

 Turkish alkaron [i.e. The Koran] in a silver box. […]

 The story of the Prodigal Son carved in wood: ancient.

 Perseus and Andromeda carved in an ivory table.

 Figures and stories neatly carved upon plum stones, apricot stones, cherry stones, peach stones etc.

 A cherry stone upon one side St George and the Dragon, perfectly cut: and on the other side 88 Emperors faces.

 The martyrdom of the Bishop of Amphipolia carved in alabaster.

 Several landscapes, beasts, cities, rocks, naturally wrought in stones.

 Landscapes, stories, trees figures cut in paper by some of the Emperors.

 Divers rare and ancient pieces carved in ivory.

 Two figures carved in stone by Hans Holbein. […]

 Divers curiosities of turned work in amber, ivory.

 A little wheel and spindle turned in amber.

 A cup turned in a peppercorn and garnished with ivory.

 A set of chess men in a peppercorn turned in ivory.

 Divers sorts of ivory balls turned one within another, some 6, some 12 fold; very excellent work.

 Rolls of the barks of trees wherein are graved the China, Arabia and Eastern languages. […]

 Two several [separate] models of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem; one in wood: the other in plaster.

 Mosaic work of divers sorts.

 Several drafts and pieces of painting of sundry excellent masters. […]

 A book of all the stories in the glass windows of Sancta Sophia, limned in vellum by a Jew.

 Divers sorts of pictures wrought in feathers.

 A little box made of straw and silk.

 Indian books made of Phillyrea [limewood].

 Indian paper made of grasses, straw, rinds of trees with large margins full of figures and divers colours.

 Babylonian combs.

 Several Indian combs, one of reeds.