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Sloane MS 4080
- Record Id:
- 040-002116474
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000711.0x000313
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 4080
- Title:
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'Camellus. Drawings from the Philippine Islands' Vol. I
- Scope & Content:
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Drawings and descriptions of plants from the Philippines by George Joseph Kamel. Volume 1 of 6.
This volume contains 123 sheets of annotated drawings and 16 sheets containing descriptions of the plants.
Many of the plants in this volume were described in an appendix to the third volume of John Ray’s Historia plantarum (London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1704). References to each work (‘G.N.’ or ‘Ray’) have been added to the drawings, some in the hand of James Petiver.
Please note, blank folios have not been digitised.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002116474 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 4080 : 'Camellus. Drawings from the Philippine Islands' Vol. I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[4096]/040-002116474
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume. (135 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_4080 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1686
- End Date:
- 1706
- Date Range:
- 1686-1706
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Please handle with care.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Dimensions: 360 x 240 mm.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Camellus, Georgius Josephus, S J; botanist, 1661-1706
Petiver, James, apothecary, botanist, natural history collector, c 1665-1718,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34799386 - Places:
- Philippines, Pacific Ocean
- Related Material:
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The volume has been described in various printed and handwritten catalogues:
- Titled: 'Su volumina chartacea, in folio, continentia icones perum naturalium in Insulis Philippinsibus nascentium. manu P. Georgii Josephi Camelli, Soc. Jes. delineatas; cum earundem descriptionibus manu ejusdem. Scilicet: Herbarum aliquarum ex hiis quæ apud Appendicem ad Johannis Reii Historiæ Plantarum Tomum Tertium descripuntur' in British Library catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts Volume 19, available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
- Titled: ‘Anonymous: 4080-4083. Various drawings of minerals, animals, birds, fishes, shells, and plants, stuck in six portfolios, with their descriptions’ in Samuel Ayscough, Catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed consisting of five thousand volumes including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. The Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about Five Hundred Volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times., Vol. II (London: 1782).
- Titled: ‘Camellus (Georgius Josephus), Jesuita. Icones et descriptiones rerum naturalium in insulis Philippensibus, 18th cent. 4080-4083 C.’ in Edward Scott, Index to the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: 1904)