Hortus siccus (1595) of Johann Brehe of Überlingen from the Broumov Benedictine monastery, Czech Republic, re-discovered

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378033%3A_____%2F22%3A00567195" target="_blank" >RIV/68378033:_____/22:00567195 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985912:_____/22:00567195 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43905318 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10457694

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2022.0794" target="_blank" >https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2022.0794</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0794" target="_blank" >10.3366/anh.2022.0794</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hortus siccus (1595) of Johann Brehe of Überlingen from the Broumov Benedictine monastery, Czech Republic, re-discovered

Original language description

A forgotten Renaissance herbarium dated to 1595 is described. It is connected to herbaria created by the naturalist Hieronymus Harder (1523–1607) of Ulm. This hortus siccus was recently found in the Muzeum Broumovska, Broumov (Braunau), Czech Republic, to which it came from the collections of the local Benedictine monastery. It is the oldest hortus siccus known in collections in the Czech Republic. It contains 358 specimens as well as annotations and drawings. Its creator was Johann Brehe from Überlingen, a sixteenth-century barber-surgeon. The paper analyzes the representation of species, the purpose of the annotations, and also the meaning of the illustrations which supplement some of the specimens. It also investigates connections between Brehe’s work and Harder’s activities linked to herbaria. Brehe’s herbarium is compared with two similar collections, Johann Jakob Han’s (?1565–1616) herbarium of 1594 and Harder’s herbarium, also of 1594, and both kept in Überlingen. It shares some features with both, while differing in other respects. In particular, we compare representations of plants from the New World and the inclusion of mosses and lichens. Finally, we address the question of how a herbarium created in a town on the shores of Lake Constance, in present-day Germany, found its way to an eastern Bohemian monastery, where its presence was first documented as recently as 1937 by Pater Vincenz Maiwald OSB (1862–1951). We also highlight the importance of Czech monasteries as sources of important, unpublished documents dealing with both the natural and social sciences.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-15927S" target="_blank" >GA20-15927S: Art for Display: The Painting collection of Emperor Rudolf II within the context of collecting practices circa 1600</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archives Of Natural History

ISSN

0260-9541

e-ISSN

1755-6260

Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

319-340

UT code for WoS article

000887933600008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85142336973