Publication Date:
2024-01-12
Description:
One of the objects of the Municipal Museum Zierikzee (Province of Zealand, The Netherlands) is a
\nhistorical herbarium referred to by the name the \xe2\x80\x98Zierikzee Herbarium\xe2\x80\x99. The characteristics of the specimens in the
\nZierikzee Herbarium are so similar to those in a herbarium at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (L), that both must
\noriginate from the same place and time. About the latter herbarium little is known, except that it was once owned by
\nthe army-surgeon Simon(e) d\xe2\x80\x99Oignies (1740\xe2\x80\x931782). The Zierikzee Herbarium was recently described and analysed
\nin detail by Offerhaus et al. (2021). It is hypothesised that the Zierikzee Herbarium is part of a herbarium made by
\nProfessor Martinus Wilhelmus Schwencke (1707\xe2\x80\x931785) and was used during his lectures for future pharmacists
\nin his botanical garden in The Hague in the 1750s, and auctioned in Leiden in 1785. The presence in the Zierikzee
\nHerbarium of a virtually complete set of medicinal plants mentioned in the \xe2\x80\x98Pharmacopoea Hagana\xe2\x80\x99 (Anonymous
\n1738) eventually led to the conclusion that these could not have been assembled before 1730. Based on the
\nprinted ornaments that are used to mount the plants in these, and the major Dutch herbaria of the 18th century,
\nI argue that the plants in the Zierikzee Herbarium and the herbarium of D\xe2\x80\x99Oignies were remounted at a later date.
\nThe hypothesis by Offerhaus et al. (2021: 12) that the Zierikzee Herbarium was started between 1710 and 1720 is
\nrejected. Arguments are given why it is unlikely that the Zierikzee Herbarium, as is suggested by Offerhaus et al.
\n(2021: 12), is the herbarium of the head gardener of the Leiden botanic garden, Jacob Ligtvoet (1684\xe2\x80\x931752) and
\nwas auctioned in 1752.
Keywords:
Plant Science
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Ecology
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Evolution
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Behavior and Systematics
;
18th century Dutch herbaria
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Jacob Ligtvoet
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Pharmacopoea Hagana
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printed herbarium ornaments
;
Martinus Wilhelmus Schwencke
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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