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Musæum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by John Tradescant
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title):Old Ashmolean Reprints This is an edition of: Musaeum Tradescantianum; or, a collectio...Periodical Title: Publication Type: Authors:Tradescant, John, the Younger Editors:Robert William Theodore Gunther Publisher: Place of Publication:Oxford Publication Date:1925 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract:Colophon: This reprint of the Musaeum Tradescantianum, the Garden list excepted, was prepared by R.T. Gunther for the opening of the Old Ashmolean Museum for the Lewis Evans Collection on May 5, 1925, and is now printed by Frederick Hall, printer to the University of Oxford, MCMXXV. Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:
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Subject of/in a document - Tradescant, the Younger, John (4 Aug 1608 [bap.]-22 Apr 1662)
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Tradescant, the Younger, John (4 Aug 1608 [bap.]-22 Apr 1662)
Mentioned or referenced by - Philippus, Lucius Marcius [Ambiguous] (-)
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Annotation:A reprint prepared by R. T. Gunther for the opening of the Old Ashmolean Museum reissue to commemorate the opening of the Lewis Evans Collection on May 5, 1925.
A simple reprint in duodecimo format. The only added material is this note at the end:
The last of the Tradescants died in 1661.
On March 20, 1683, twelve cartloads of his rarities arrived at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, just one week after thy had been shipped on to a Thames barge in London. The opening of the new Museums in the nineteenth century, one for Science and one for Art and Archaeology, resulted in the temporary abandonment of the parent Museum, and in the loss of many of its treasures. Now, after the lapse of thirty years, the oldest Science Museum in Britain is again housing a Collection of Rarities, and the purpose for which it was specially built is restored.