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Letter 8 April 1737, [Leiden], to Carl Linnaeus, [Hartecamp]. L0329.
(Text, Manuscript)
Language
Latin
Persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
(author)
Linné, Carl von
, 1707-1778
(addressee)
Incipit
Quam concepi de accipienda Flora Lapponica spem me
Origin
Leiden
, die [lunae] [1737-04-08]
Physical description
Format:
Non digital + Digital, reformatted digital
Abstract
Johann Bartsch has not managed to get hold of a copy of
Flora Lapponica
. Bartsch wishes his exams were over. He will visit Adriaan van Royen to ask about his ”Tentamen”. Bartsch has some doubts about going to Suriname but an incredible love for natural history urges him on. However, he needs instructions from Linnaeus. Bartsch is not content with the economical conditions. Herman Boerhaave has written to him to be prepared to go at the end of next month.
Transcription
Fautori suo Optimo
S[alutem] P[lurimam]
Joannes Bartsch.
Quam concepi de accipienda Flora Lapponica spem me fefellisse hactenus
doleo summopere, contentus interim, quod noverim non nisi Bibliopolam illum in culpa
esse. Si cedant, ut proposui, omnia ex voto, ego perendie adibo D[ominum] van Royen,
rogaturus eius Tentamen. Utinam iam absolvissem examen! Eo absoluto credas Tibi me
futurum molestissimum, quia Te eousque defatigabo precibus, ut velis nolis Tua
instructione me dignum censere debeas in quacunque rerum scientia. Quid enim est,
cur tanta ausus sim in me suscipere, et certissime periculum facio haud parvum; credas
enim iam longe aliter se habere rem, ac eam prima vice propositam expertus Tecum
sum. Desisterem certo certius a proposito, nisi me plane singularis, et nescio, qualis in
naturalem historiam traheret amor. Licet audacter susceperim Boerhaavii propositum,
nisi tamen Tua instructione ante discessum mihi frui liceat, me dimitteres sane
miserrimum, minimeque omnium contentum. Credas me nec certum esse de itinere
absque impensis propriis faciundo, nec de stipendio initio proposito. Ego nihilominus
spe et promissis Boerhaavii innixus suscepi rem certe incertam. Scripsit ille iam
praeterita die ☿ [Mercurii] ad societatem me circa finem mensis sequentis fore paratum
ad discessum. Vale, terque quaterque Vale!
Die [lunae].
[
Address
]
A Monsieur
Monsieur Linnaeus
Docteur en Medicine
à
Son Logis.
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: 124 P. 196-197
Original location:
a. (Linnean Society, London, I, 397).
Venue:
The letter probably written 8 April 1737.
Places of dispatch and destination [address] not specified, but there is reason to assume they were Leiden and Hartecamp.
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.
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Other version:
Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné
, Volume II:1, p. 196 - 197
Document type
Letter
Subject, persons
Bartsch, Johann
, 1709-1738
Royen, Adriaan van
, 1705-1779
Boerhaave, Herman
, 1668-1738
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Location
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-223257
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
L0329
(Linnébrev)
alvin-record:223257
(alvin)
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