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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works
For more than three centuries the collections of the Ashmolean
Museum have occupied a position of primary importance in the
history of collecting in Great Britain and an honourable position
in the development of museums on a European scale. Many collection
catalogues (especially those of the natural sciences), compiled by
curators over the past two or three hundred years, have never
before been published. This volume - a further volume, designated
Part II is to follow - starts to bring these collections to a wider
audience. Their independent importance is considerable, for they
provide not only a record through time of the fluctuating content
of the Ashmolean but also an index of the changing preoccupations
of the collectors and donors who progressively enriched the museum,
of the curators who tended it, and of the wider community of
scholars for whom the collections represented a fundamental
resource.
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