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[1]
Letter 8 April 1736, Leiden, to Carl Linnaeus, Amsterdam. L0074.
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Incipit
Haud aegre feras me negotia Tua turbantem
Origin
Leiden
, Netherlands, VI. Id. Aprilis MDCCXXXVI [1736-04-08]
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Abstract
Johann Bartsch asks Linnaeus some questions [regarding the printing of
Flora Lapponica
]:
1. Whether the orthography of the names of the plants in Linnaeus’s
Systema
[Bartsch refers to the first edition of
Systema naturae
] should be followed.
2. Whether the pages should be numbered.
3. Whether Linnaeus’s observations to his
Flora Lapponica
should be printed in small or in large letters.
4. Bartsch asks Linnaeus to carefully consider the remarks in the manuscript sent over to him; the work will soon be printed.
5. Whether he prefers ae or æ.
Bartsch has learnt with great pleasure that the leaves of
Pinguicula
can be used to curdle milk. Bartsch wishes that he could visit Johann Leonhard Frisch. Bartsch has seen two species of
Scolopendrae
and some
Lacertae
in his hospital.
Transcription
Fautori suo optimo,
S[alutem] P[lurimam]
Joannes Bartsch.
Haud aegre feras me negotia tua turbantem hisce litteris. Scias velim, me
non mea, verum Tua libentissime curare. Cures vero et Tu summopere rogo, ne Te
poeniteat imposterum huius mihi oblati beneficii; respondeas ergo ad omnia
categorice brevissimisque. Generalia, ad quae Tua exspecto responsa, sunt haecce:
1.) An Orthographia nominum plantarum in systemate Tuo recepta sit servanda?
2.) An paginae numerandae?
3.) Quae in Observationibus Tuis ad Floram Lapponicam lineolis subductis notata,
suntne maioribus, an minoribus imprimenda litteris. Quam libenter propter ea, si
possibile, vel unicam plagulam caracterum Tuorum impressorum, ut videre possem,
exopto.
4.) Ad ea, quae in Exemplari Tuo notata invenies, Tuam adponere mentem enixe
rogo. Addas igitur ultimam limam Tuo iamiam prodituro operi.
5.) Velisne ae, vel æ imprimi?
Quodsi Te non taederet, binas quasque a me visas iterumque revisas plagulas Tibi
transmitterem vel plures ad adventum Tuum servarem paratissimas. Eligas, quidquid
placet; experieris me in omnibus ad nutum Tuum paratum. Modum praeparandi illud
lac maxima animi perlegi oblectatione, maxime animadvertens, posse sic omnem in
toto universo possibilem lactis copiam in eamdem mutari naturam, superstite tantum
vel unico Pinguiculae folio. Utinam me iam visitaret
Frischius
, ast ut ipsi
simul statutum figatur tempus, quo elapso rursus teneatur proprios petere Lares.
Inveni duas species Scolopendrae, nec non aliquot Lacertarum in Nosocomio meo
alendas summo animi oblectamento quotidie saepissime inviso. Respondeas rogo
quantocyus, simulque cures, ut valeas. Vale!
Dabam Lugd[uni] Batavorum VI Id[us] Aprilis MDCCXXXVI.
[
Address
]
A Monsieur
Monsieur Linnaeus
Docteur en Medicine
by myn Hr Cliffort
à
Amsterdam
Notes
Letter from or to Linnaeus
Additional physical form :
Linnaeus, Carl: Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné. Utgifna och med upplysande noter försedda af Th. M. Fries, J. M. Hulth & A. Hj. Uggla. Afdelning I:1-8, Afdelning II:1-2 (Stockholm 1907-1943). Vol. II:1: 96 P. 170-171
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, I, 363-364).
Literature
Linnaeus, Carl: Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale collectas in itinere [...] Additis synonymis, & locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus & figuris rariorum, viribus medicatis & oeconomicis plurimarum (Amsterdam, 1737). Soulsby no. 279.
Linnaeus, Carl: Systema naturae, sive regna tria naturae systematice proposita per classes, ordines, genera & species (Leiden 1735). Soulsby no. 39.
Related records in Alvin
Other version:
Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné
, Volume II:1, p. 170 - 171
Document type
Letter
Subject, persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
Frisch, Johann Leonhard
, 1666-1743
Clifford, George
, 1685-1760
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Uppsala University Library
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Box 510
SE 751 20 Uppsala
Linnaean correspondence
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-222822
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L0074
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:222822
(alvin)
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