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.