The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565 by Samuel Quiccheberg

The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565

Samuel Quiccheberg with Mark A. Meadow (Translator)

188 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity cabinets, or Wunderkammern, to princely collectors in sixteenth-century Europe and, by so doing, inspire t...

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