Title
Musaeum Tradescantianum, or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
Title Variants
Alternative:
Collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London
Alternative:
Musaeum Tradescantianum
Alternative:
Museum Tradescantianum
By
Tradescant, John, 1608-1662
Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692
Wharton, Thomas, 1614-1673
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
, ill
Grismond, John,
, printer
Brooke, Nathaniel
, bookseller
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke, M.DC.LVI [1656]
Notes
Catalog of a collection made by John Tradescant and his son (also named John) and left by the latter to Elias Ashmole, who presented it to Oxford University in 1683, where it formed the nucleus of the old Ashmolean Museum (the first museum in Great Britain), but was later dispersed. Catalog compiled by Tradescant with the assistance of Thomas Wharton and Elias Ashmole.
Catalog of the collection of natural history specimens and manufactured objects that were to form the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. It was compiled by Elias Ashmole and Dr. Thomas Wharton, together with the younger John Tradescant.
The ports. of John Tradescant, father and son, are by Wenceslas Hollar.
With an heraldic frontispiece. The portraits are signed by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Woodcut head-pieces.
Wing | T2005
Signatures: AaB-MN.
Wood, C.A. Lit. of vertebrate zoology, | p. 600
Madan | 2292
Wing (2nd ed.) | T2005
MgGill/Wood, | 600
Yale/Ripley, | 291
Sotheby's. Lib. of H.B. Martin: ornithology, 1989, | 1925
English or Latin.
Subjects
1608-1662
,
1617-1692
,
-1637?
,
17th century
,
Art collections
,
Art objects
,
Ashmole, Elias,
,
Catalogs and collections
,
Collectors and collecting
,
England
,
Engravings
,
Natural history
,
Natural history collections
,
Oxford
,
Tradescant, John,
Call Number
QH70.G72 O92 1656
Language
Latin
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.99782
NAL:
330 .T67
OCLC:
6957189
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51507351
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