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Subject Botany Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 16034.b.22

Reference (shelfmark):
16034.b.22
Title:
Zukai honzō 圖解本艸 [図解本草]
Scope & Content:
Author/compiler: Shimotsu Mototomo (or Genchi) 下津元知, writer on botany, fl. late-17th century. Imprint: Edo, Fujimoto Heizaemon; Kyōto, Tanaka Rihē, Jōkyō 2, 1685. Kanki on fol. 32b of maki 10 reads: 于時貞享二乙丑年三月上旬 ／ 書林 ／ 江戸日本橋青物町 ／ 藤本兵左衛門 ／ 京柳馬場二條上町 ／ 田中理兵衛 ／ 開板. Description: 10 kan, 10 satsu, i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Japanese
Date Range:
1685
Extent:
10 volumes

2. Add MS 5289

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5289
Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 13828

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 13828
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS Papers, Letters and Accounts, relative to the revenue of Bengal, supplies and loans, allowances and salaries of civil estabblishment, customs, post-office, etc., 1796-1804.
Scope & Content:
Among them may be noticed a letter from Rev. D. Mac Kinnon to Lt. Col. Kirkpatrick, on the propriety of founding a college to instruct the natives in English and Greek, with a list of the Arabic translations of Greek authors discovered by Mr. Hastings in 1784, in the Vizir's palace at Lucknow, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1784-1805
Extent:
1 item