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Ashmolean Museum

Presented to the University of Oxford in 1682 by Elias Ashmole. Sometimes called the Tradescant, because it belonged to the Tradescant family.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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