Romani Colegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum, Amsterdam

Item author: Athanasius Kircher
Item date: 1678
Grant Value: £1,500
Item cost: £4,389
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Aberdeen University Library
Town/City: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeenshire

A catalogue of the antiquities and ethnological remains assembled by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, the foundation of the Jesuit Roman College's famous Museum. The Catalogue's contents, particularly in the field of Egyptology, relate closely to the University Library's own Museum collections.

Item Provenance
Krown & Spellman, Booksellers, Culver City, California