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4) ”Collections of curiosities […] had their heyday after the end of the Middle Ages: collections of this kind flourished from c. 1550, began to wane during the seventeenth century, and by 1750 were very rare indeed.” (Anthony Alan Shelton: “Renaissance Collections and the New World”. John Elsner & Roger Cardinal, edd. The Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktion Books, p. 180)