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    SAMUEL QUICCHEBERG

    THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

    THE FIRST TREATISE ON MUSEUMS SAMUEL QUICCHEBERG’S INSCRIPTIONES, 1565


    SAMUEL QUICCHEBERG
    Translation by Mark A. Meadow and Bruce Robertson
    Introduction by Mark A. Meadow

    THE FIRST TREATISE


    ON MUSEUMS
    SAMUEL QUICCHEBERG’S
    INSCRIPTIONES 1565

    BLUB TK

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    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
    THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM
    homas W. Gaehtgens, Director, Getty Research Institute
    Gail Feigenbaum, Associate Director

    © 2013 J. Paul Getty Trust


    Published by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
    Getty Publications
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500
    Los Angeles, California 90049-1682
    www.getty.edu/publications

    Laura Santiago, Manuscript Editor


    John Hicks, Production Editor
    Catherine Lorenz, Designer
    Suzanne Watson, Production Coordinator
    Name TK, Typesetter
    Stuart Smith, Series Designer

    Printed in China
    Type composed in Minion and Trade Gothic

    17 16 15 14 13 54321

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Quicchelberg, Samuel, 1529-1567.


    [Inscriptiones. English]
    he irst 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.
    pages cm. -- (Texts & documents / Getty Research Institute)
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 978-1-60606-149-7
    1. Museum techniques--Early works to 1800. 2. Museums--Philosophy. 3. Collectors and collecting--History.
    4. Cabinets of curiosities--Early works to 1800. I. Meadow, Mark A, translator, editor of compilation. II.
    Robertson, Bruce, 1955- translator, editor of compilation. III. Title. IV. Series: Texts & documents.
    AM49.Q5313 2013
    069’.4--dc23
    2013016182

    Front cover: Display cabinet with assemblage, see pl. 18


    Back cover: Hans Mielich (German, 1516–73), Portrait of Samuel A. Quiccheberg, detail of pl. 1.

    his volume translates Samuel Quiccheberg, Inscriptiones; vel, tituli theatri amplissimi . . . (Munich: Ex Oicina
    Adami Berg typographi, 1565).

    English-language translation copyright: he Regents of the University of California, Mark A. Meadow, and Bruce
    Robertson. © 2002. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

    Funding for translation provided in part by the University of California Humanities Research Institute and a grant
    from the J. Paul Getty Trust.
    CONTENTS

    vi Preface: Wonderful Museums and Quiccheberg’s Inscriptiones


    BRUCE ROBERTSON

    xii Acknowledgments

    1 Introduction
    MARK A. MEADOW

    42 Plates

    56 Biography of Samuel Quiccheberg


    HEINRICH PANTALEON

    58 Preface to Quiccheberg Manuscript


    LEO QUICCHEBERG

    61 Inscriptiones; or, Titles of the Most Ample heater


    SAMUEL QUICCHEBERG

    132 Bibliography
    140 Biographical Notes on Contributors
    141 Illustration Credits
    142 Index

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