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Museum regium, seu, Catalogus rerum tam naturalium, quam artificialium, quae in basilica bibliothecae augustissimi Daniae Norvegiaeq[ue] monarchae Christiani Quinti, Hafniae asservantur

Jacobaeus, Oliger, 1650-1701, Erichsonig, Johann, Grothschiling, Benedict, Schmetgen, Joachim, Denmark Copenhagen · 1696 · Hafniae [Copenhagen] : Literis reg. cels. typogr. Joachim Schmetgen · 87 pictures

Oliger Jacobaeus's Latin catalogue of the royal cabinet of curiosities of Christian V of Denmark and Norway, printed in Copenhagen by Joachim Schmetgen in 1696 for scholars, collectors and court visitors. Copperplate engravings show human and animal skeletons ranged along a display wall, coins and medals laid out in numbered rows or hung in garlands by putti, and enthroned-king medallions with heraldic borders, supplying ready-made specimen grids, ornamental headpieces and circular emblem frames.

Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway, 1646-1699 · Cabinets of curiosities · Natural history · Numismatics

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