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Musaeum Clausum (the Sealed Museum) also known as Bibliotheca abscondita is an inventory of remarkable Books Antiquities Pictures and Rarities of kinds scarce or never seen by any now living written by Sir Thomas Browne in his old age (an event the year 1675 is referred to) and posthumously in 1684.
Like the encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of and queries only this time in true style in the form of extremely brief descriptions of supposed rumoured or lost books and objects.
Musaeum Clausum also confirms that the ideas imagery symbolism of esoteric thought were of great to one of the leading intellectuals of century Europe.
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Musaeum Clausum also known as 'Bibliotheca abscondita\' is an inventory of remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living written by Sir Thomas Browne in his old age (an event from the year 1675 is referred to) and published posthumously in 1684.
Like the encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Musaeum Clausum (the Sealed Museum) is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in true Borgesian style, in the form of extremely brief, thumb-nail descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, picures and objects.
However this minor literary masterpiece deserves to be better known for it alludes to motifs and symbols from the worlds of Classical literature, the Bible and alchemy which Browne was fixated upon throughout his life; it is therefore a 'snap-shot' in précis of the symbols which preoccupied his unconscious psyche.
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 Musaeum Clausum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like the encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in true Borgesian style, in the form of extremely brief, thumb-nail descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, pictures and objects.
Distinguished in medicine and science, President of both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, the books and objects Sloane collected became the foundation of the British Museum.
The sheer volume of book-titles, pictures and objects listed in Musaeum Clausum is testimony to Browne's fertile imagination; however his major editors, Simon Wilkins in the nineteenth century (1834) and Sir Geoffrey Keynes in the twentieth (1924) summarily dismissed it.
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Musaeum Clausum (the Sealed Museum) also known as Bibliotheca abscondita is aninventory of remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man nowliving written by Sir Thomas Browne in his old age (an event fromthe year 1675 is referred to) and published posthumously in 1684.
Like the encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica,Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in true Borgesian style, in the form of extremely brief,thumb-nail descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, picures and objects.
Musaeum Clausum also confirms that the ideas,imagery and symbolism of esoteric thought were of great interest to one of the leading intellectuals of seventeenth centuryEurope.
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 Encyclopedia: Thomas Browne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir Thomas Brownes Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) was in its day a European best-seller which brought its author fame and respect throughout the continent.
The Garden of Cyrus or The Quincuniall, or Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, naturally, artificially, mystically considered is a work written by Sir Thomas Browne.
Musaeum Clausum (the Sealed Museum) also known as Bibliotheca abscondita is an inventory of remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living written by Sir Thomas Browne in his old age (an event from the year 1675 is referred to...
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 Musaeum Clausum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Like the encyclopaedia (Click link for more info and facts about Pseudodoxia Epidemica) Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Musaeum Clausum is a catalogue of doubts and queries, only this time, in true Borgesian style, in the form of extremely brief, thumb-nail descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, picures and objects.
Browne however was not the first author to engage in such fantasy.
As ever the ambiguity of Browne's credulity of the claims of alchemists is cunningly camouflaged in his concluding jest: "He who knows where all this Treasure now is, is a great Apollo.
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 Musaeum - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Musaeum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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The Musaeum at Alexandria, which included the famous Library of Alexandria, was an institution founded by the Ptolemies and under their patronage.
*Lee, "The Musaeum of Alexandria and the formation of the 'Museum' in eighteenth-century France," inThe Art Bulletin, September 1997
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We took a chapter out of Urne Buriall and we did that into Quevedo's Spanish and it went very well."
Musaeum Clausum Tract 13 from Miscellaneous Tracts first pub.
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The sheer volume of book-titles, pictures and objects listed in the Musaeum Clausum is testimony to Browne's fertile imagination, however his major editors, Simon Wilkins in the nineteenth century (1834) and Sir Geoffrey Keynes...
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 Thomas Browne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Of what in this kind I have by me I shall make no repetition, and you having already had a view thereof, I am bold to present you with the List of a Collection, which I may justly say you have not seen before.
Musæum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita : containing some remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any Man now living.
A Poem of Ovidius Naso, written in the Getick Language, * during his exile at Tomos found wrapt up in Wax at Sabaria, on the Frontiers of Hungary, where there remains a tradition that he died, in his return towards Rome from Tomos, either after his pardon, or the death of Augustus.
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 Musaeum Clausum - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Musaeum Clausum (the Sealed Museum) also known as Bibliotheca abscondita is an inventory of remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living written by Sir Thomas Browne in his old age (an event from the year 1675 is referred to) and published posthumously in 1684.
Musaeum Clausum also confirms that the ideas, imagery and symbolism of esoteric thought were of great interest to one of the leading intellectuals of seventeenth century Europe.
Upon reading its slender pages one may concur with the French art critic Andre Malreaux's observation that-
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 Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus
The order in which his thoughts and observations occur is left to chance.
His so-called Commonplace Books, in short, are a literary cabinet of rarities which in its conception resembles Musaeum Clausum, in that there, too, Browne is not interested in overall relationships but in individual rarities.
A few pages beyond the paragraph just quoted Browne addresses himself to the purpose of his notes.
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