Complex sentence: A catalogue of the 17th century collection of John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name, which was the founding core of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, was published as Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities.
Split into simpler sentences: A catalogue of the 17th century collection of John Tradescant the elder and his son John Tradescant the younger was the founding core of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It was published as Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of Rarities.