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Sloane MS 2376
- Record Id:
- 040-002114741
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x000037
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2376
- Title:
- James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan Baptista Poggio and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra
- Scope & Content:
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Public Domain in most countries other than the UK.
Includes:
1. Plantae in Insula Palma Collectae Mense Januario 1697/1698, ff 5-9.
2. Copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Juan Baptista Poggio, 1698, ff 10-21; and copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra, 1698-1699, ff 22-30.
3 & 4. Descriptions of fish and birds found on a voyage beyond the Cape of Good Hope, 1697/1698, ff 31-37.
5. Planta in Insula Java circa Bataviam Crescents Collectae Mense Junio 1698, ff 38-48.
6. Plantae in Insulis Emuey et Colonshu Collectae a Mense Julio ad Januarium 1698-1699, ff 49-68.
7. Semina, ff 69-72.
8. Miscellanea Observations in China, ff 73-77.
9. The Chinese Methode of Dyeing Red & Scarlet Colours, ff 78-81.
10. Catalogues Plantarum, quarum Icones in China delineate Sunt, ff 82-110.
11. Index vocum quorandum Chinesium, f 111.
12. Plantae in Chersoneso Aurea circa Malaccam Collectae Mense Februario, 1698/1699, ff 112-116.
13. Plantae Europeae ad Bonae Spei Promontorium Spontanee provenientes, f 117.
14. Plantae in Ascensionis Insula collectae Maii 1699, ff 118-122.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114741 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 2376 : James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[2364]/040-002114741
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2376 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1706
- End Date:
- 1706
- Date Range:
- 1706
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to the Charter-House: Owned: in 1706 (see note at folio 1.)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Arteaga de la Guerra, Isidorus
Cuninghame, James, FRS, Physician to the E I Factory at Chusan in China, fl 1698-1709
Petiver, James, apothecary, botanist, natural history collector, c 1665-1718,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34799386
Poggio, Juan Baptista - Places:
- Ascension Island, Oceania
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
China, Asia
Colonshu, China
Emüy, China
Java, Indonesia
Palm Isle, Australia
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