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