Quicchelberg, Samuel, 1529-1567.

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. - xiii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm - Texts & documents / Getty Research Institute . - Texts & documents. .

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

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.

9781606061497

2013016182


Museum techniques--Early works to 1800.
Museums--Philosophy.
Collectors and collecting--History.
Cabinets of curiosities--Early works to 1800.

AM4 / .Q5313 2013

069.4/ / QUI