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Chapter 3120 the supervision of Fugger’s collections [Fig. 3.13]. Later Quiccheberg followed these collections to Munich, where he appears to have been closely involved in their arrangement, and it was in Munich that he published in 1565 his Inscripti- ones vel tituli theatri amplissimi<...>. This is a short treatise expounding the rai- son d’être of the Kunst- und Wunderkammer, and providing detailed practical instructions as to its classification and arrangement; not unreasonably, it has been hailed as the first museological treatise of modern times.21 In it Quicche- berg also stressed the importance of the library, which he considered an indis- pensable sister-institution of his ideal museum, and he suggests a method of systematic classification for its contents. This classification shows great affinity with the system actually in use in the arrangement of Fugger’s books. This is not surprising, since Quiccheberg, as Fugger’s librarian, had been responsible for its elaboration. Yet it is rather likely that this classification, which owns a lot to Gesner’s Bibliotheca universalis, was the result of close consultation with Gesner, Quiccheberg’s predecessor Hieronymus Wolf—who remained in Augsburg—and Fugger himself. In 1571, when Fugger’s library was ceded to Duke Albrecht v of Bavaria, the system was extended to the whole of the Duke’s library almost without modifications.22 21 Quiccheberg 1565; Quiccheberg/Roth 2000 (text edition and German translation); Quic- cheberg/Meadow/ Robertson 2013 (English translation); on Quiccheberg (the name is also spelt Quickelberg), see Hartig 1917, pp. 33–34, 70, 93–96, 227–229 and passim; Berliner 1928; Hartig 1933; Bernheimer 1956; Hajas 1958; Scheicher 1979, pp. 68–71; Seelig 1985. pp.  86–87; Falguières 1992; Jansen 1993<b>. 22 Hartig 1917, pp. 223–240; the signatures written in the hands of Fugger’s librarians— Hieronymus Wolf and Samuel Quiccheberg and the assistants Carolus Stephanus and Figures 3.10–3.11 Conrad Gesner, celebrated bibliographer and botanist, and the title page of his Bibliotheca Universalis, Zürich 1545. Figures 3.12–3.13 The Greek scholar Hieronymus Wolf, Fugger’s first librarian, and his suc- cessor as such, Samuel Quiccheberg, author of the Inscriptiones vel tituli theatri amplissimi, Munich 1565.