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Title

Catalogus plantarum in horto regio parisiis ... etc..

Authors

• Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund
• Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund

Other related names

• Emery, G. E, former owner
• Miner, Lawrence W., 1860-, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006165442)
• Laird, Marshall, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81079904)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1782
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9970550413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956740179
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37d2qb9k http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366224

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin (catalogue of plants, p. 1-184, with English names added in the original hand) and French (catalogue of contents of apothecary shop, p. 491-506), with an early 20th-century list added in English (p. 188-218)

Origin

Date

1682

Place

Paris

Summary

Catalogue of plants in the Jardin du Roi, originally a royal garden for medicinal plants in Paris now named the Jardin des Plantes, listing 1,864 species grouped by genus. An incomplete index at the front of the volume lists species alphabetically and leaves room for folio numbers that were never added. Both the index and the catalogue include English names added for some species. Beginning from the back of the volume upside down is a catalogue of the contents of Lémery's apothecary shop in September 1682, written as continuous text with entries separated by commas, but divided into categories of Les animaux (from animals); Bois et racines (from woods and roots); Sucs, gommes, resines (from juices, gums, and resins); Fruits, bayes, et semences (from fruits, berries, and seeds); and Mineraux (from minerals, including mummy wrapping and paper from China and Japan). In the blank pages in the middle, early 20th-century owner Lawrence W. Miner kept a list of household goods, mostly pieces of china, but also items in glass, wood, and metal.

Notes

• Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (p. 49).
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 1. p.1-43: Herbae, frutices et arbores medicinales / [Nicolas Lémery] -- 2. p.49-184: Catalogus plantarum in horto regio parisiis, anno 1682 Junii 15 / [Nicolas Lémery] -- 3. p.188-218: [Catalogue of china, glass, and small wooden and metal accessories / Lawrence W. Miner] -- 4. p.491-506: Catalogue de tous les medicamens simples chez Monsieur Lemery apothecaire, a Paris Septembre 18, 1682 / [Nicolas Lémery].
   

Extent

260 leaves : 115 x 82 mm bound to 120 x 95 mm

Collation

Paper, 260 leaves; 1⁴ 2-4⁸ 5-8¹⁶ 9¹⁵ 10-13⁸ 14⁶ 15-26⁸ 27⁸(-7) 28⁴ 29⁸; gatherings 6-10 signed B-F in modern pencil, lower right first recto; paginated [i-viii], 1-33, [34-520 (34-35, 44-48, 185-187, 219-490 blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 17th-century) parchment with broken headband; spine label, circa 1800 (Antiquariaat Forum): MSS, Apothecary Catalogue, Paris, 1682.

Script

Written in semicursive script, probably by Nicolas Lémery.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Ferguson family, probably England, late 17th or 18th century (inscriptions, p. v, 508).
   
• Formerly owned by Marshall Laird, biologist in Newfoundland and New Zealand (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Sold by Antiquariaat Forum (Netherlands), 2016.
   
• Formerly owned by Lawrence W. Miner, New London, Connecticut (inscription dated 1905, p. v).
   
• Formerly owned by by G.E. Emery, London, probably 19th century (stamp, p. i).
   

Subjects topical

• Jardin du roi (France)--Early works to 1800
• Jardin du roi (France)
• Medicinal plants
• Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800
• Drugstores--France--History--Sources
• Drugstores
• History
• France

Genres

• Codices
• Catalogs (documents)
• Lists (document genres)
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Manuscripts, French
• Manuscripts, American
• Sources
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 17th century
• English
• French
• Paper
• France
• Lists
• Science

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Herbae, frutices et arbores medicinales, p.1
• 49 — Catalogus plantarum in horto regio parisiis, anno 1682, p.49
• 188 — [Catalogue of china, glass, and small wooden and metal accessories], p.188
• 491 — Catalogue de tous les medicamens simples chez Monsieur Lemery apothecaire, p.491