A cabinet collection in the sixteenth century included watches, jewels, rings, bracelets, necklaces, pearls from the Orient, gold and silver work, buttons, perfumed gloves, costly musk and amber, scent-bottles, pomanders on handsome chains, small scissors, pocket knives, pocket mirrors, coral beads, rosaries of rock-crystal, little books, eau de Damas , eau de rose , eau d’oeillet , and other delicate essences, medals, little pictures, rare stones, fans, etc.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

518 Some account of other Eastern alum-works is contained in a treatise of F. B. Pegolotti, written in the middle of the fourteenth century, on the state of commerce at that time, and printed in a book entitled Della decima e di varie altre gravezze imposte dal commune di Firenze.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann