Synopsis of the British Museum
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The Synopsis of the British Museum was the earliest guide produced by the British Museum about the contents and display of the collections . It was first published in 1808, and updated editions were published thereafter. In time, parts of the Synopsis were printed as smaller guides to particular departmental galleries in the museum.
The purpose of the Synopsis is given in the first edition as follows:
Persons who are desirous to obtain a general idea of the contents of this extensive Repository, will probably be gratified by having a brief statement previously laid before them; I. Of the circumstances which gave rise to the Institution; II. Of its Gradual Increase; III. Of its Constitution, and the Regulations now in force for its preservation and useful application; and IV. Of the present distribution of its numerous contents in the several Departments into which it is divided.[1]
Editions[edit]
- 1808 (1st edn) Acts and Votes of Parliament. Statutes and Rules and Synopsis of the British Museum
- 1809 (2nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1810 (3rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1811 (4th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1813 (6th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1814 (7th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1814 (8th edn) Acts and Votes of Parliament relating to the British Museum, with the statutes and rules thereof, and the succession of trustees and officers (SCBM 8th edn starts on p. 144)
- 1815 (9th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1816 (10th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1817 (11th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1818 (14th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1819 (15th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1820 (17th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1823 (21st edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1823 (22nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1824 (23rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1826 (24th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1827 (25th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1832 (26th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1832 (27th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1835 (29th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1836 (31st edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1837 (32nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1837 (33rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1838 (35th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1838 (36th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1838 (37th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1839 (38th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1840 (40th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1840 (42nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1841 (43rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1842 (44th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1843 Synopsis or Guide book to the British Museum – Part 1 - Zoology
- 1844 (46th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1844 (47th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1845 (48th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1846 (49th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1847 (50th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1847 (52nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1848 (53rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1849 (54th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1850 (55th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1851 (57th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1852 (59th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1853 (60th edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1854 (61st edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1855 (62nd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1856 (63rd edn) Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
- 1866 Dept of Greek and Roman Antiquities - First Vase Room
- 1874 Dept of Oriental Antiquities – A Guide to the Egyptian Galleries - Vestibule
- 1879 Dept of Greek and Roman Antiquities – Graeco-Roman sculptures (2nd edn)
- 1880 Dept of Coins and Medals – Guide to the select Greek and Roman coins exhibited in electrotype (new edn)
- 1881 A Guide to the Sculptures in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Part II
- 1881 [https://archive.org/details/synopsiscontent00medagoog/page/n5/mode/2up Dept of Coins and Medals – A guide to the English medals exhibited in the King’s Library (1st edn)
- 1881 Dept of Coins and Medals – A guide to the Italian medals exhibited in the King’s Library
- 1881 Dept of Coins and Medals – A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients (2nd edn)
- 1883 Dept of Greek and Roman Antiquities – First Vase Room (new edn)
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