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What Will We Find Inside Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities?

Imagine you have a collection—books, stamps, art, anything. If we examined the way you organized that collection, what would we learn about the way you see the world? During her time at the Folger, 2017-2018 Mellon Research Fellow Surekha Davies looked at collection catalogs from the time of Shakespeare to learn about the ways collections and collecting practices shaped early modern European attempts to understand human variety around the world. We talk to Surekha about her research and the Folger’s copy of “Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge,” Nehemiah Grew’s late 17th-century catalog of the Royal Society’s collection, which makes connections between objects that might seem strange to us today.