Ashmolean Museum

aeGiven the competing demands of routine museum life, the tackling of a project in the nature of the present volume is not to be lightly undertaken. Many hours of painstaking transcription are demanded, followed by the incorporation of innumerab le revisions and refinements as broad structure, essential detail and shades of nuance all emerge.Ae Thus begins the second part of editor Arthur MacGregorAes publication of the Ashmolean MuseumAes Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections. The Vice-ChancellorAes Consolidated Catalogue (1695) includes an introduction and Inventory of the VisitorsAe catalogues, including The Book of the Vice-Chancellor; The Book of the Dean of Christ Church; The Book of the Principal of Brasenose; The Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine; Book of the Senior Proctor; and The Book of the Junior Proctor. There are also Glossaries of Latin terms used for natural specimens and Brazilian, Mexican, Nahuatl and other American Indian terms used for natural specimens in the catalogues. Indices are provided of English terms, Latin terms, and Brazilian, Mexican, Nahuatl and other American Indian terms.MacGregor, Arthur is the author of 'Ashmolean Museum', published 2006 under ISBN 9781841719375 and ISBN 1841719374.