Download or read book Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three centuries the collections of the Ashmolean Museum have occupied a position of primary importance in the history of collecting. The manuscript inventories of successive curators, many previously unpublished, represent a fundamental resource for scholars, providing a record of both the fluctuating content of the museum and of the changing preoccupations of collectors and donors.