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Timothy Lannoy Esq., a merchant trading ...

Latin Text:

TIMOTHEUS LANNOY Armiger, ad Emporia Ottomannica mercaturam exercens, dedit caprę Turcicę ex Angora juxta Constantinopolim, alutariam pellem sericeis pilis cincinnatis eleganter vestitam.

Translation:

Timothy Lannoy Esq., a merchant trading to the Ottoman Empire, gave the museum the soft skin of a Turkish goat, with curly silken hair, from Angora, near Constantinople.

Location:Not listed in the 1836 catalogue. The present location of this object is unknown.

Year:MDCCVIII (1708);  Page Number:20 (recto)