The first treatise on museums : Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565 / Samuel Quiccheberg ; translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson ; edited by Mark A. Meadow with Bruce Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quicchelberg, Samuel, 1529-1567.

Contributor:

Meadow, Mark A., translator, editor.

Robertson, Bruce, 1955- translator, editor.

Project Muse.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Texts & documents

Texts & documents / Getty Research Institute

Standardized Title:

Inscriptiones. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Museum techniques--Early works to 1800.

Museum techniques.

Museums--Philosophy.

Museums.

Collectors and collecting--History.

Collectors and collecting.

Cabinets of curiosities--Early works to 1800.

Cabinets of curiosities.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 145 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2013]

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2013]

Language Note:

Translated from the Latin.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface: Wonderful museums and Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones / Bruce Robertson

Introduction / Mark A. Meadow

Biography of Samuel Quiccheberg / Heinrich Pantaleon

Preface to Quiccheberg manuscript / Leo Quiccheberg

Inscriptions; or, Titles of the most ample theater / Samuel Quiccheberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-139) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781606064054

1606064053

Publisher Number:

99989647489

40023008794

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.