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Museo Cospiano: annesso a quello del famoso Vlisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall' illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi ..., fra' gli Accademici Gelati il Fedele, e principe al presente de' medesimi.

Publication Details

Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1677 CE.

As the title indicates, the Cospi collection incorporated the earlier museum of Ulisse Aldrovandi, and Legati's catalogue is sometimes regarded as forming a 14th or supplementary volume to Aldrovandi's encyclopedic Opera omnia (13 vols., 1599-1667). "When Maximilian Misson visited the Cospi collection in 1688 what struck him most were the 'hundred and eighty-seven volumes in folio, all written by Aldrovandus in his own hand, with more than two hundred bags full of loose papers' " (Grinke, From Wunderkammer to museum (2006) No. 25). Digital facsimile from the Getty Research Institute, Internet Archive, at this link.

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Entry Number#7572
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9744
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External URLmuseo-cospiano-annesso-a-quello-del-famoso-vlisse-aldrovandi-e-donato-alla-sua-patria-dall-illustrissimo-signor-ferdinando-cospi-fra-gli-accademici-gelati-il-fedele-e-principe-al-presente-de-medesimi

Geographic Context

Publication place: Bologna