The celebrated museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus : a facsimile of the 1678 Amsterdam edition of Giorgio de Sepi's description of Athanasius Kircher's Museum, Musæum celeberrimum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu / with a translation of the Latin text by Anastasi Callinicos and Daniel Höhr ; annotated by Jane Stevenson ; edited, with an afterword, by Peter Davidson.

Main entry:

Sepibus, Georgius de, active 1678, author.

Title & Author:

Edition:

US edition.
Facsimile edition.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press, MMXV.
©2015

Description:

172 pages, 7 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm.

Series:

Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; vol. 13

Notes:
"This facsimile edition of the Musaeum Celeberrimum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu has been jointly published by St Omers Press, Stonyhurst and Saint Joseph's University Press, Philadelphia"-- Colophon.
Facsimile of 1678 Amsterdam edition.
Originally published: Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu Musæum celeberrimum, cujus magnum antiquariæ rei, statuarum imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini, S.P.Q.R., a secretis, munificâ Liberalitate relictum / P. Athanasius Kircherus Soc. Jesu ...Amstelodami, Ex Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, anno MDCLXXVIII.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Text in English and Latin. Translated from the Latin.

ISBN:

0916101878
9780916101879
(UK edition)
9780955359248

Subject:

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680 Facsimiles.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
Collegio romano. Museo.
Science Early works to 1800 Facsimiles.
Sciences Ouvrages avant 1800 Fac-similés.
Science.

Form/genre:

Facsimiles (reproductions)
Early works.
Facsimiles.

Added entries:

Sepibus, Georgius de, active 1678. Musaeum Celeberrimum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu.
Sepibus, Georgius de, active 1678. Musaeum Celeberrimum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu. English.
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes, 1616-1680, printer of the original edition.
Callinicos, Anastasi, translator.
Höhr, Daniel, translator.
Stevenson, Jane, 1959- annotator.
Davidson, Peter, 1957- editor.
Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; v. 13.

Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus

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Call No.: BIB 240037
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