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Flora : Federico Cesi's botanical manuscripts / Brent Elliott ; with Luigi Guerrini and David Pegler.
- Title
- Flora : Federico Cesi's botanical manuscripts / Brent Elliott ; with Luigi Guerrini and David Pegler.
- Author
- Elliott, Brent
- Publication
- London : Royal Collection Trust in association with Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| v.3 | Text | Request in advance | QK41 .G27 2015 v.3 | Off-site | |
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- nnam (MP) The paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. a catalogue raisonné. drawings and prints in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Museum, the Institut de France and other collections. Series B, Natural history part 7 (NL-LeOCL)163793638 (OCoLC)68279624
- Description
- 3 volumes : color illustrations; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "This three-volume catalogue presents five manuscripts containing some 780 mainly botanical drawings, now in the library of the Institut de France. They were produced for Federico Cesi in the 1620s to further the researches of the scientific society he had founded in Rome, the Accademia dei Lincei, of which Cassiano dal Pozzo was a member. The manuscripts were acquired by Cassiano in 1633 following Cesi's death, together with three companion manuscripts dedicated to drawings of fungi (published in Part B. II of the catalogue raisonné). Many of the drawings depict plants such as ferns, bryophytes, mosses and liverworts, which had been considered 'imperfect' because (like fungi) they seemed to lack reproductive structures - flowers, fruit or seeds. In 1624 Galileo gave his fellow academicians a microscope, and with this novel 'aid to the eyes', wrote another Linceo, 'our Prince Cesi saw to it that many plants hitherto believed by botanists to be lacking in seeds were drawn on paper'. Indeed, these drawings constitute some of the earliest microscopic studies in the history of science. One manuscript is dedicated to illustrations of seaweeds and is the first known sustained study of this subject, while another is a miscellaneous volume that includes 30 prints as well as drawings of fungi and lichen, insects, a bat, a hermaphrodite rat and other curiosities. Introductory essays discuss the importance of these drawings to Cesi's researches and how the manuscripts made their way into the collections of the Institut de France, their botanical content and place in the history of botanical illustration. All drawings are reproduced as full-plate colour illustrations and accompanied by botanical identifications and commentary."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
- Series Statement
- Series B, Natural History ; pt. 7
- Uniform Title
- Paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B, Natural history pt. 7.
- Alternative Title
- Federico Cesi's botanical manuscripts
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- Catalogues raisonneÌs
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- v. 1. Institut de France MSS 974 and 975 -- v. 2. Institut de France MSS 975, 976 and 977 -- v. 3. Institut de France MSS 977 and 978.
- ISBN
- 9781905375783 (set)
- 1905375786 (set)
- OCLC
- 908831994
- SCSB-10286646
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library