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The Early Book Herbaria of Leonhard Rauwolf (S. France and N Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali (2021) 32:449–461 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-021-01012-1 RESEARCH PAPER The early book herbaria of Leonhard Rauwolf (S. France and N. Italy, 1560–1563): new light on a plant collection from the ‘golden age of botany’ Anastasia Stefanaki1,2,3 · Tilmann Walter4 · Henk Porck5 · Alice Bertin1 · Tinde van Andel1,2,6 Received: 18 January 2021 / Accepted: 21 June 2021 / Published online: 10 July 2021 © The Author(s) 2021 Abstract The sixteenth century was a golden age for botany, a time when numerous naturalists devoted themselves to the study and documentation of plant diversity. A very prominent fgure among them was the German physician, botanist, and traveler Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–1596), famous for his travel account and luxurious book herbarium containing plants from the Near East. Here, we focus on the less studied, early book herbaria of Rauwolf. These form a three-volume plant collection bound in leather and gold, which contains over 600 plants that Rauwolf collected between 1560 and 1563 in S. France and N. Italy when he was a student of medicine. We show the botanical value of Rauwolf’s early book herbaria, exemplifed by two exotic American specimens, namely one of the oldest surviving specimens of tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), collected in Italy, and the oldest known French record of prickly pear (Opuntia fcus-indica). These well-preserved specimens indicate that Rauwolf was eager to collect exotic plants already in his early botanical steps. We further discuss Rauwolf’s professional botanical network during his student years and suggest that the famous Swiss botanist Johann Bauhin (1541–1613), friend and companion of Rauwolf during his feld excursions and their medical studies in Montpellier, has played a signifcant role in the compilation of this precious historical plant collection. We also show that Leonhart Fuchs (and not Carolus Clusius) extensively annotated the three book herbaria. Finally, we reconstruct the story of making of the book herbaria, as evidenced through observations of paper watermarks and handwritten texts in the book volumes, and show that all four book herbaria of Rauwolf were probably bound between 1577 and 1582. Keywords History of Botany · Historical collections · Tobacco · Opuntia · Johann Bauhin · Leonhart Fuchs 1 Introduction During the sixteenth century, numerous scholars across * Anastasia Stefanaki Europe devoted themselves to the documentation, descrip- [email protected] tion, collection, and preservation of the natural world (Ogil- vie 2006; Cooper 2007). Turning to nature in search for the 1 Naturalis Biodiversity Center, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden, The Netherlands plants described in antiquity, these sixteenth century natural- ists discovered new plants, unknown to the ancient authors, 2 Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands and attempted for the frst time in history to catalogue all then known species (Ogilvie 2006; Cooper 2007; Egmond 3 2019 Van de Sande Fellow, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University Library, Leiden, The Netherlands 2018). They carried out feld expeditions to collect plants, press-dried and glued them on paper sheets, compiling the 4 Institut Für Geschichte Der Medizin, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, oldest book herbaria that survive today. It was through these Germany processes that botany diverged from a medicinal practice 5 Curator Emeritus of the Paper History Collection, National into a scientifc discipline of its own (Stefanaki et al. 2019). Library of The Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands In this so-called botanical Renaissance of the sixteenth 6 Clusius Chair of History of Botany and Gardens, Leiden century, no other naturalist exhibited the adventurous and University, Leiden, The Netherlands Vol.:(0123456789)1 3 450 Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali (2021) 32:449–461 pioneering spirit of the German physician, botanist, and peregrinatio academica traveling through the Alps to N. traveler Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–1596). Italy. On the way, he collected the plants that formed the Rauwolf was born in Augsburg, a bustling merchant third book herbarium. Rauwolf visited Padua, Verona, Man- city in southern Germany, from a middle class family of tua, Ferrara, Bologna, Florence, Modena, Piacenza, Parma, iron traders. Later he became famous as the frst early mod- Milan, and Como, heading forward through Switzerland to ern European to travel to the Near East up to Baghdad in Germany. During this homeward journey, Rauwolf visited search for new medicinal plants (Walter 2009; Ghorbani Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) in Zurich, accompanied by et al. 2018). This hazardous journey that lasted 3 years his friend and classmate from Montpellier, Johann Bauhin (1573–1576) is documented in detail in Rauwolf’s printed (1541–1613) (Durling 1965). According to Legré (1900), travel account (Rauwolf 1583). This book was to become a that same year, Rauwolf met in Augsburg with Carolus bestseller at its time, having been published in multiple edi- Clusius (1526–1609), to which he presented the plants he tions and translations (Walter 2009; Ghorbani et al. 2018). had collected in France and Italy, and presumably accepted In the frst lines of his travelogue, Rauwolf fnely outlines Clusius’ annotations and corrections of several plant names. the concept of sixteenth century botany, expressing his keen Doubting Legré’s argument, Ganzinger (1963) attributed the interest, since very early in his life, in the plants described numerous annotations and corrections found in Rauwolf’s by the ancient Greek and Arabic authors. He expresses his herbaria to Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), suggesting that intention to acquire knowledge on these plants and see them Rauwolf, on his way back to Augsburg in 1563, also visited in their native habitats in the Mediterranean. He also reports Fuchs, his former teacher in Tübingen. Ganzinger (1963) that the tales of Augsburg merchants had awakened in him also observed that Fuchs had marked several plants with the desire to travel (Rauwolf 1583). The output of this pro- the phrase ‘Soll gerissen werden’, an indication to illustra- found, life-long desire was a large collection of almost 900 tor Jerg Ziegler to draw these plants for Fuchs’ upcoming dried plant specimens from France, Italy, Lebanon, Syria herbal (Seybold 1990; Kusukawa 2006). The latter was an and today’s Iraq bound in four book volumes. impressive collection of over 1500 plant illustrations that Long before reaching fame as a traveler to the Near East, remained unfnished due to Fuchs’ death and only saw the Rauwolf started the compilation of his plant collection while light of publication in 2001 (Baumann et al. 2001). a young student of medicine. After a short time at the univer- In 1571, Rauwolf was appointed city physician of Augs- sities of Tübingen (1554) and Wittenberg (1556), he went to burg, a position that he, as a devoted Protestant, lost 17 the medical university of Montpellier (Ganzinger 1963; Dan- years later due to religious conficts. For the city council nenfeldt 1968) (Fig. 1). There, from 1560 to 1562, he studied had dismissed the old preachers who had found favor in the medicine as a student of the famous botanist, and pupil of congregations and appointed new ones, an act of arbitrari- Luca Ghini, Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566) (Dannenfeldt ness against which Rauwolf and others protested (Herde and 1968). During his student years, Rauwolf eagerly botanized Walter 2010). Thereby getting into fnancial difculties, he in the surroundings of Montpellier, and also around Langue- decided to sell his herbaria, which he achieved for a remark- doc, Provence, Auvergne, and Rhône Alpes. The plants he able price, 310 Reichstaler, which had to be paid to Rau- collected formed the frst two books of his plant collection. wolf by the imperial chamber. The four book herbaria were Rauwolf graduated in 1562 from the University of Valence, bought in 1593 by a commissioner of the Habsburg Emperor Dauphiné (Dannenfeldt 1968). In 1563, he carried out his Rudolf II (1552–1612) and became part of Rudolf’s famous Fig. 1 Matriculation oath of Leonhard Rauwolf at the University of Montpellier in 1560. Credit: BIU de Montpellier. Service photographique 1 3 Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali (2021) 32:449–461 451 collections in Prague (Callmer 1973; Walter et al. 2021). the National Museum of Natural History, Paris), C. Bauhin They were later stolen by Swedish troops, and, together (https://herba rium. unibas. ch ), F. Platter (https://www. burge with the Italian En Tibi herbarium, which was also part of rbib. ch/ de/ besta ende/ priva tarch ive/ einze lstue cke/ platt er- Rudolf’s cabinet of curiosities, they were brought to Stock- herba rium), C. Ratzenberger (Kessler 1870), H. Harder holm and handed to Queen Christina of Sweden (Callmer (Speta and Grims 1980; http:// daten. digit ale- samml ungen. 1973; Stefanaki et al. 2019). There they came to the pos- de/ ~db/ 0001/ bsb00 011834/ images/), the Erbario Ducale session of the Dutch librarian Isaac Vossius (1618–1689). Estense (Camus and Penzig 1885), the En Tibi herbarium When Vossius died, his heirs sold Vossius’ collection of (Stefanaki et al. 2018) and Erbario A and B (Penzig 1905). books to Leiden University and the book herbaria fnally To explore the botanical network of Rauwolf in the period came in 1690 to Leiden, where they are preserved to this of compilation of his early book herbaria, we identifed the day. The frst herbarium is on display at the Boerhaave naturalists who contributed handwritings in the three book museum, and the remaining three herbaria are kept in the volumes. For this, we compared the handwritings of plant treasure room of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. names, descriptions and annotations found next to the plant The botanical content of the fourth volume compris- specimens and in the indices with samples of the handwrit- ing the plants that Rauwolf collected in the Near East was ing of Rauwolf and that of other sixteenth century natural- recently studied by Ghorbani et al.
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