Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum

Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the goal to publish all existing Etruscan bronze mirrors. The first three volumes were published in 1981. A total of thirty-six fascicles has been produced.

Background

The first major systematic study of Etruscan mirror was Eduard Gerhard's Etruskische Spiegel. The work consists of five volumes published between 1843 and 1897 (the final volume being published after Gerhard's death). In 1973 a decision was made to make a new publication that could replace Gerhard's outdated work.

Current Volumes

Belgium

1. CSE Belgique 1. Bruxelles, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artis- tique; Courtrai, Museum voor Oudheidkunde en Sierkunst; Gand, Museum voor Oudheidkunde der Rijksuniversiteit; Hamme, Museum Van Bogaert-Wauters; Louvain-la-Neuve, Musee de l'Institut Superieure d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de l'Art de l'U.C.L.; Morlanwelz, Royal Museum of Mariemont; Collections privees. Roger Lambrechts 1987.

Denmark

1. CSE Denmark 1. Copenhagen, the Danish National Museum, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek. Helle Salskov Roberts. 1981.

France

1. CSE France 1. Paris, Musée du Louvre 1. Paris, Denise Emmanuel-Rebuffat. 1988.

2. CSE France 1. Paris, Musée du Louvre 2. Paris, Denise Emmanuel-Rebuffat. 1991.

3. CSE France 1. Paris, Musée du Louvre 3. Paris, Denise Emmanuel-Rebuffat. 1997.

4. CSE France 1. Paris, Musée du Louvre 4. Paris, Denise Emmanuel-Rebuffat. 2009.

Germany

Deutsche Demokratische Republik

1. CSE DDR 1. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung. Gerald Heres. 1986.

2. CSE DDR 2. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung; Leipzig, Museum des Kusthandwerks; Gotha, Schlossmuseum; Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Gerald Heres. 1987.

Bundesrepublik Deutschland

1. CSE BRD 1. Bad Schwalbach, Bochum, Bonn, Darmstadt, Essen, Frankfurt, Kassel, Köln, Mainz, Mannheim, Schloss Fasanerie bei Fulda. Ursula Höckmann. 1987.

2. CSE BRD 2. Braunschweig, Göttingen, Hamburg, Hannover, Kiel, Münster, Steinhort, Wolfenbüttel. Ursula Liepmann. 1988.

3. CSE BRD 3. Stuttgart, Tübingen, Privatsammlungen Esslingen, Stuttgart, Munich. B. v. Freitag Gen. Löringhoff. 1988.

4. CSE BRD 4. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Antikensammlung 2. Gerhard Zimmer, 1995.

Great Britain

1. CSE Great Britain 1. The British Museum 1. Judith Swaddling. 2001.

2. CSE Great Britain 2. Cambridge: Corpus Christi College, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Museum of Classical Archaeology. Richard Nicholls 1993.

3. CSE Great Britain 3. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, Claydon House, Pitt Rivers Museum. Nancy Thomson de Grummond 2007.

Hungary and Czechoslovakia

1. CSE Hongrie, Tchécoslovaquie. J.G. Szilágyi and Jan Bouzek. 1992.

Italy

1. CSE Italia 1.Bologna, Museo Civico 1. Giuseppe Sassatelli. 1981.

2. CSE Italia 1. Bologna, Museo Civico 2. Giuseppe Sassatelli. 1981.

3. CSE Italia 2. Perugia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 1. Alba Frascarelli. 1995.

4. CSE Italia 3. Volterra, Museo Guarnacci 1. Gabriele Cateni. 1995.

5. CSE Italia 4. Orvieto, Museo "Claudio Faina." Maria Stella Pacetti. 1998.

6. CSE Italia 5. Viterbo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Gabriella Barbieri, with collaboration of Lorenzo Galeotti. 1999.

7. CSE Italia 6. Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 1. Maria Paola Baglione and Fernando Gilotta, with collaboration of Lorenzo Galeotti.

8. CSE Italia 6. Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 2. Elena Foddai. 2009.

9. CSE Italia 6. Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia-Antiquarium 3. La Collezione del Museo Kircheriano. Maria Stella Pacetti. 2011.

10. CSE Italia 7. Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano 1. Museo delle Antichità etrusche e italiche, Sapienza- Università di Roma. Laura Ambrosini. 2012.

11. CSE Italia 8. Musei dell'Etruria Padana: Marzabotto, Monterenzio, Spina, Adria, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma. Giuseppe Sassatelli and Andrea Gaucci. 2018.

The Netherlands

1. CSE The Netherlands. Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum. The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Nijmegen, Rijksmuseum Kam. Utrecht, Archaeological Institute - State University, Private collection "Meer". L. Bouke van der Meer. 1983.

Poland

1. CSE Polonia 1. Witold Dobrowolski. Forthcoming.

Norway and Sweden

1. CSE Norway-Sweden 1. Oslo, Göteborg, Lund, Mora, Stockholm, Private Collections. Ingela M.B. Wiman. 2018.

Switzerland

1. CSE Schweiz 1. Basel, Schaffhausen, Bern, Lausanne. Ines Jucker. 2001.

U.S.A.

1. CSE U.S.A. 1. Midwestern collections. Richard Daniel De Puma. 1987.

2. CSE U.S.A. 2. Boston and Cambridge, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Cambridge: Harvard University museums. Richard Daniel De Puma. 1993.

3. CSE U.S.A. 3. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Larissa Bonfante. 1997.

4. CSE U.S.A. 4. Northeastern collections. Richard Daniel De Puma. 2005.

5. CSE U.S.A. 5. West Coast collections. Evelyn E. Bell, Helen Nagy. 2021.

Vatican City

1. CSE Stato della Città del Vaticano 1. Città del Vaticano, Museo Profano della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana; Rome, Collezione di antichità dell'Abbazia di San Paolo fuori le mura. Roger Lambrechts. 1995.

See also

• Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum

External links

• Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors at the British Museum

Update 2025

Dear All,

I am obliged to the scholar who corrected and enlarged the Wikipedia list of CSE volumes in 2024.

Having spent an hour or two checking my books, I would offer a more inclusive list.

I hope that scholars take up the challenge and edit the outstanding volumes. I hope that scholars also correct and enlarge my list. I can defend much of it -- I have many scans and descriptions of the "forthcoming" Etruscan mirrors: the numbers of Etruscan mirrors conserved in what museums. The unsatisfactory times of being unable to cite an Etruscan mirror from a CSE volume is, in respect of my own studies, at an end -- I cite from the official volumes and also from just as many unofficial volumes. (I have similarly updating the volumes of the Body Of Etruscan Inscriptions). Scholars responsible for continuing their partially completed sets of volumes have, spitefully, died, or no longer answer the door at least. Scholars who have announced this volume or that volume have, after a decade, still produced nothing.

Australia And Japan -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Austria -- 1 -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Belgium -- 1 -- Bruxelles -- 1.

Belgium -- 2 -- Private Collections -- forthcoming.

Belgium -- Z -- Roger Lambrechts -- Les miroirs etrusques et prenestins des Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire a Bruxelles.

Canada -- 1 -- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Collezione -- related -- see LOCI INCERTI -- forthcoming.

Collezione -- related -- see Perished (Often In World War 2) -- forthcoming.

Collezione di Musei di Villa Torlonia -- forthcoming.

Collezione Pigorini -- forthcoming.

Collezione privato anonimo di specchio montesino -- forthcoming.

Collezione privato anonimo IN TERRA INCERTA -- forthcoming.

Collezione Professore Raffaele Prati -- forthcoming.

Collezione Sangiorgio -- forthcoming.

Collezione Stefani -- see Vetulonia.

Denmark -- 1 -- Copenhagen -- 1.

Denmark -- 2 -- Museo Thorvaldsen -- forthcoming.

France -- 1 -- Paris, Musée du Louvre -- 1.

France -- 1 -- Paris, Musée du Louvre -- 2.

France -- 1 -- Paris, Musée du Louvre -- 3.

France -- 1 -- Paris, Musée du Louvre -- 4.

France -- 2 -- Avignon -- forthcoming.

France -- 3 -- Figeac -- forthcoming.

France -- Z -- Denise Rebuffat-Emmanuel -- Le miroir étrusque d'après la collection du cabinet des médailles.

France -- Z -- Denise Rebuffat-Emmanuel -- Les miroirs étrusques de la collection Dutuit au Petit Palais.

Germany -- München -- forthcoming.

Germany -- Stuttgart -- forthcoming.

Germany East -- 1.

Germany East -- 2.

Germany West -- 1.

Germany West -- 2.

Germany West -- 3.

Germany West -- 4.

Germany West -- 5 -- forthcoming.

Great Britain -- 1 -- The British Museum -- 1.

Great Britain -- 1 -- The British Museum -- 2 -- forthcoming.

Great Britain -- 2 -- Cambridge -- 1.

Great Britain -- 3 -- Oxford -- 1.

Great Britain -- 4 -- Victoria And Albert Museum -- forthcoming.

Great Britain -- 5 -- Minor Museums -- forthcoming.

Hungary And Czechia -- 1.

Italy -- 01 -- Bologna -- 1 -- Museo Civico -- 1.

Italy -- 01 -- Bologna -- 1 -- Museo Civico -- 2.

Italy -- 02 -- Perugia -- 1 -- Museo Archeologico Nazionale -- 1.

Italy -- 02 -- Perugia -- 2 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 03 -- Volterra -- 1 -- Museo Guarnacci -- 1.

Italy -- 03 -- Volterra -- 2 -- Museo Guarnacci -- 2 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 04 -- Orvieto -- 1 -- Museo Mauro Claudio Faina -- 1.

Italy -- 04 -- Orvieto -- 2 -- Museo Nazionale -- forthcoming -- 1.

Italy -- 05 -- Viterbo -- 1 -- Museo Archeologico Nazionale -- 1.

Italy -- 05 -- Viterbo -- 2 -- Museo di Ischia di Castro -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 06 -- Roma -- 1 -- for Commercio Antiquario Romano -- see Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia.

Italy -- 06 -- Roma -- 1 -- Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia -- 1.

Italy -- 06 -- Roma -- 1 -- Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia -- 2.

Italy -- 06 -- Roma -- 1 -- Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia -- 3.

Italy -- 06 -- Roma -- 1 -- Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia -- 4 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 07 -- Roma -- 2 -- Museo Nazionale Romano.

Italy -- 08 -- Musei dell'ETRVRIA Padana -- 1.

Italy -- 09 -- Firenze -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 10 -- Palestrina -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 11 -- Napoli -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 12 -- Todi -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 13 -- Siena -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 14 -- Montepulciano -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 15 -- Chiusi -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 16 -- Tarquinia -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 17 -- Milano -- Museo Teatrale alla Scala -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 18 -- Fiesole -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 19 -- Volci -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 20 -- Arezzo -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 21 -- Città della Pieve -- PENES MAGISTRATVS.

Italy -- 22 -- Asciano -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 23 -- Toscana -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 24 -- Orbetello -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 25 -- Vetulonia -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 26 -- Grosseto -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 27 -- Col Valle d'Elsa -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 28 -- Livorno -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 29 -- Santo Miniato -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 30 -- Civita Castellana -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 31 -- Torino -- forthcoming.

Italy -- 32 -- Palermo -- forthcoming.

LOCI INCERTI -- forthcoming.

Norway And Sweden -- 1.

Perished (Often In World War 2) -- forthcoming.

Poland -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Russia -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Scotland -- 1 -- forthcoming.

Spain -- forthcoming.

Switzerland -- 1.

Switzerland -- 2 -- forthcoming.

The Netherlands -- 1.

United States Of America -- 1 -- Midwestern Collections -- 1.

United States Of America -- 2 -- Boston And Cambridge -- 1.

United States Of America -- 3 -- New York -- 1 -- Metropolitan Museum Of Art -- 1.

United States Of America -- 4 -- Northeastern Collections -- 1.

United States Of America -- 5 -- West Coast Collections.

United States Of America -- 6 -- Various Minor Collections (Fordham University Museum; private collections).

Vatican City -- 1.

Vatican City -- 2 -- forthcoming.

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Volumes of the Body Of Etruscan Mirrors include mirrors of a specified country or city or museum. There are many more volumes to be added to my list. My volume titles are not "official" -- the Italian volume numbers, for example, are in disagreement with the "official" lists (for my purposes, my listings take precedence. And just as is the case for the CORPVS INSCRIPTIONVM ETRVSCARVM, new volumes of the CORPVS SPECVLORVM ETRVSCORVM are published only every ten or twenty years); I am attempting to impart impetus to scholars TO PUBLISH MORE NOW!, and I look forward to corrections and supplementations.

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Adriana Emioliozzi Morandi's "Direttive agli Autori" ought to be on this Wikipedia page, too, if someone can upload it please.

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Mrs. Denise Rebuffat-Emmanuel's "Le miroir étrusque d'après la collection du cabinet des médailles" and "Les miroirs étrusques de la collection Dutuit au Petit Palais", and Mr. Roger Lambrechts's "Les miroirs etrusques et prenestins des Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire a Bruxelles", must find a place in this Wikipedia article. Depending on its exhaustiveness (?), a place could be found for Mr. Gerhard Zimmer's "Spiegel im Antikenmuseum".

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