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… cal attitude and unquestioned adherence to dogma, revival of encyclopedias, the compilation of knowledge, in botany, especially of the medicinal properties of plants. OTTO BRUNFELSIUS(Brunfels, 1464-1554)--early Lutheran herbalist who published in 1530 his Herbarium vivae icones, a compilation with excellent, original illustration HIERONYMUS TRAGUS(Hieronymous Bock)--prepared an original herbal the New Kreuterbuch (1559). VALERIUS CORDUS(1515-1544)--made detailed systematic descriptions in Historia plantarum, published posthumously by Jesner in 1561. CONRAD GESNER(1516-1565)--physician and zoologist, emphasized i …

… ded of the figures in Apuleius Barbarus, although these before us are much more pleasing to look at. We do not know the source of these drawings but they accord well with the sort of thing found in many ms herbals. This book has no author and was very probably copied directly from a ms at that time a hundred or more years old and now no longer in existence. But despite its quotations from the older authors of the 10th to 13th centuries, and even from Dioskorides here and there, it is fairly clearly a product of German compilation. This book was produced by Peter Schoeffer, not quite the founder of printing, but b …

… e had published a significant medical work, the "Feldtbuch der Wundartzney" ("Field-manual of surgery") by Hans von Gerssodoff. - Brunnfels came from Mainz, and perhaps he owes his liking for botany to the herbals that were printed there. First he entered a Carthusian monastery, but later he converted to Protestantism and became a preacher and teacher at Strassburg, so that medicine and botany became merely a side-line. In spite of this, the plants in his herbal are no longer classified alphabetically, but according to families. Also a difference has been made between male and female specimens of plants, so that …

… raeca, 1806-40, ten volumes of folio plates reproduced from Ferdinand Bauer's exquisite drawings of plants of Greece, etc., etc. These and their fellows are the foundation stones of any great collection of botanical illustration as represented by flower prints. But in another way the second question must be answered by 'yes'. Had the National Library of Scotland chosen for its exhibit books to re- present early herbals from 1481 to 1600, or the botanical works of Lin- naeus, or early American works on botany, or floras of Germany, etc., the ratio corresponding to the 80 per cent we are discussing would almost cer …

… atischen Botanik (ed. 4, 1935), reprinted in 1962 after the original issue became unobtainable. There is no English translation but there is a Spanish Edition (Madrid, 1944), with inferior reused half-tone illustrations. It is the greatest single twentieth century compendium of systematic botany, containing concise beautifully illustrated accounts of all plant groups, and footnotes to monographs and critical papers concerning each. Milton said a good book is the life-blood of a master spirit: Wettstein documents Milton. More recently Alfred Gundersen drew the plants as they came into flower at the Brooklyn Botani …

were odd pieces produced in very limited editions of a dozen or so, the significance would be small. But actually, many of them are among the gems of botanical illustration. To name just a few, here are Curtis' Flora Londinensis, of 1777-98 with folio-sized engravings of flowering plants native to London; the same author's Botanical Magazine, begun in 1791 and still published in continuation--in it there are over 10,000

-2- Now comes the bad part. As I told you, Barbara plans to use for next year's Bulletin as covers only illustrations out of Schöffer's Latin Herbarius and asked me to write an article about him and it for the March-April Bulletin, since the January-February Bulletin will be entirely devoted to fund raising and just has an illustration out of the Herbarius on its cover, with just the name of the plant given, but no further description. I have read everything I could get hold off about the Herbarius (at least, I believe so) and find it entirely impossible not to repeat the things written by Agnes Arber about this …

66 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. ENGLISH HERBALS. 67 Nearly thirty years later, Henry Lyte translated into English the famous Dutch 'Herbal' of Dodoens. Lyte was an Oxford student who traveled in foreign lands and collected a number of rare plants, and on his return to England founded one of the first botanical gardens in this country. The title of his translation is 'A niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of Herbes and Plantes; their divers and sundry kinde: their straunge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes: their Names, Natures, Operations, …

… , was John Lindley's An outline of the first principles of botany (1830), a small pocket-sized book inscribed: 'Mrs Lindley with the authors love June 1. 1830'--but not an ordinary copy, the four plates of illustrations not just engravings, but the author's original drawings--an intimate piece indeed! On display in Edinburgh last summer was another exhibit of botanical books which invites comparison with our own, although its composition was almost entirely different. This was shown by the National Library of Scotland, in honor of the Tenth International Botanical Congress which met during August; it traced the h …

… by R. E. Woodson, Jr. et al. (review) Quart. Rev. Biol. 32("1957"): 398. [137] Edward Palmer, Plant Explorer of the American West, by Rogers McVaugh. (review) Madroño 14: 214-216. [138] 1959 Feuillée's Two Herbals of 1714 and 1725. Herbarist (Herb Soc. Amer. Publ.) no. 25: 60-64. [139] Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) and his projected revision of Duhamel du Monceau's Traité (1755) on Trees and Shrubs: I. An analytical guide to persons, gardens, and works mentioned in the manuscripts. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 103: 807-818. [140] Use of complementary data from zoogeography in a phytogeographic study of the Rocky …

Page 11 Ewan 1963 John Lyon, nurseryman and plant hunter, and his Journal, 1799-1814. (with Nesta Ewan) Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. n.s. 53: pt. 2. 1-69. maps, 2 figs. A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage by John Ledyard (review) Science 140: 1204. John Clayton: Pioneer of American Botany, by Edmund and Dorothy Berkeley. (review) Science 141:1027-1028. Sertum Anglicum, by George H. M. Lawrence. (review) Science 142:43. Flora of the British Isles, second ed. by A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin, and E. F. Warburg (review) Quart. Rev. Biol. 38:84-85. Boerhaave's correspondence Part. I. by G. A. Lindeboom (review) Jour. H …

Botany NoteBook I

… Akribie und Ausführlichkeit darf Jonas Dryander's "Catalogus bibliothecae Jos. Bankius" (Bd 2: Botanik, 1796) gelten. Ihre heutigen wichtigsten Vertreter sind die großen Londoner Sammlungen der Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew (1899, 790 S.; Suppl. 1919), der Linnaean Society (New ed. 1925, 560 S.), der Lindley Library der Royal Horticultural Society (1927, 488 S.; neue Aufl. in Vorbereitung) und vor allem des British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington (1903 ff, 5 Bde und 3 Bde Suppl.). Zu ihnen gesellen sich der Utrechter Gesamt-Katalog: "Catalogus van botan. boekwerken in de Univ.-Bibl. . . ." (1936, 2 …

… those hairsplitting controversies, she also abandoned the utilitarian standpoint. Just as he home he published his herbal, collections & dried plants began to be made. Clusius was the first man who travelled for Botanical purposes. He roamed over Europe from the Sierras of Spain to the lands of Hungary, from the seacoast to the highland of the Tyrol. Linnaeus(1707-1778) sifted arranged the chaotic mass of material that had been accumulated. The Linnaean system took immediate possession of the civilised world. Linnaean botany was recommended, especially in ladies, as a harmless pastime, not overeating to the mind.

… behind let us note that the excellence of illustration was just about as bad as it could be, considering the top quality of the plant portraits produced by Leonardo in the 15th century ( ) and Dürer in the early 16th century ( ) not to mention all the beautiful work done in earlier illuminated mss ( ). Why all this bad illustration in books? I have never seen any good explanation. I believe the reason may be closely linked to the cost of good woodcuts,--it was just cheaper to use a bad copy than a good new original, the same as it is today. But in the end, scientific requirements demanded accuracy in plant illust …

… .de Papis seems to be the oldest one. An other one, published in 1509 by Joannes and Bernardinus Rubeus at Venice, differs only slightly from the German editions in text and general arrangement, whilst the illustrations, though approximately of the same size as the Mainz ones, have been drawn entirely anew. In certain cases the German original can still be traced, generally however, the figures seem to have been drawn from nature with considerable skill; the technique of the woodcuts however can hardly be called particularly praiseworthy. A similar work, but at the same time distinctly different from our "Herbari …

most have been copied from earlier herbals. Tabernamontanus' work, in which much space was given to the description of curative powers of the plants, had little success originally. 1613 however, it was re-edited in 3 volumes by Caspar Bauhinus, whom we have already mentioned as the editor of Matthiolus' herbal, and again published in 1525. After that the wood- blocks came from Frankfurt to Basel, where in 1634 an edition, revised by Hieronymus Bauhinus, appeared at Jakob Werenfels', which was printed in two further editions in 1687 and 1731. The Period of Decline in Germany. Of the plant-pictures in the "Historia …

13 November 1978 Mr. Wilfrid Blunt The Curator's House Watts Gallery Compton, Nr. Guildford Surrey, England Dear Wilfrid: I have consulted Seymore de Ricci - Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada and find a few references which may possibly qualify: At the Huntington Library, San Marino, California - HM58. Herbal and Medical Recipes, in English prose. VEL. (XVthc.), 95ff (20 x 14 cm.). Original wooden boards and sheepskin. Sold by Rodd, ca.1842 (n.295 in one of his catalogues?) to Sir T. Phillips (n.11077); obtained privately through Rosenbach (1923). Library of the Univer …

TULANE UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS 18 Dept. of Botany August 6, 1961 James A. Duke Assistant Curator Miss uri Botanical Garden St. Louis 10, Missouri Dear Mr. Duke: My seed collection is only this month seeing the light of day after being packed away since "family days": this due to new herbarium cases, and a place to put them. I have not kept abreast of seed publications, except to think that Korsmo, Emil. Weed Seeds, with 34 colored plates of seeds and infructescences. Gyldendal Norst, Oslo, 1935. is the finest I know. I haven't seen the Semenatlas: the library has put a "locate" on it for me. The best sources for s …

… d in seven of eight editions during his lifetime (he died in 1586), it was printed another twelve times up to 1703. It is particularly interesting, that even in the last editions there still are many plant illustrations taken over from the first edition (the woodblocks were taken from Frankfurt to Ulm, from there to Nuremberg and then to Augsburg), also some animal-pictures, which Jost Amman had drawn for the "Tierbuch" (Animal Book), which was published by Feyrbond in 1589. Egonolf, who had died in 1555, did not see Lonicer's herbal published; publication only was completed in 1557 by "Egonolf's Erben" (Egonolf' …