Edited by Margaret Holben Ellis

She has lectured and published on a variety of subjects

134 color illustrations

With carefully chosen illustrations

" each chapter includes a number of short sections on a particular topic as well as several specific "features"—concepts

The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565 making manuscript Edited by Margaret Holben EllisSamuel Quiccheberg Introduction by Mark A. Meadow Translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson A new translation of a seminal sixteenth century book on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quicchebergs 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 them to