Bibliography

Sources of information related to John Sibthorp, his travels, his herbarium and the Flora Graeca project. This list is not comprehensive. All 'MS Sherard' call numbers are deposited in the Sherardian Library, University of . Additional unpublished sources are given in Lack (1999; pp. 317-18).

Published works

Airy Shaw, H.K. and Turrill, W.B. (1926) Revision of Sibthorp's plants at Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1926: 120-128.

Anonymous (1917) An addition to Oxford's art treasures. A lucky acquisition of Mr. G. Claridge Druce. Oxford Chronicle 12 November 1917.

Bruce, M.R. (1970) John Sibthorpe [sic]. Taxon 19: 353-360.

Clokie, H.M. (1964) An account of the herbaria of the department of botany in the . Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Donovan, D.T. (1989) John Sibthorp. Linnean 5: 15-18.

Druce, G.C. (1924) The foundations of the Oxford Botanic garden and its tercentenary. Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles 7: 335-66.

Harris, S.A. (2011) John Sibthorp: teacher of botany. Oxford Plant Systematics 17: 16-17.

Harris, S.A. (2007) The Magnificent Flora Graeca: how the Mediterranean came to the English garden. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Harris, S.A. (2009) [Flora Graeca: Gpirokhi Elliniki Khlorida. Diaylos, Athina]. Translated by S. Rhizopoulou.

Hope, T.J. (1974) John Sibthorp's last expedition to the Balkans: the accounts of Sibthorp and Dallaway about their travels in 1794. Revue des Études Sud-est Européennes 12: 87-102.

IDC (1996) The Sibthorpian Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford. IDC Microform Publishers. Leiden.

Lack, H.W. (1997) Die Frontispize von John Sibthorps "Flora Graeca". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wein 99B: 615-654.

Lack, H.W. (2000) Lilac and Horse chestnut: Discovery and rediscovery. Curtis's Boytanical Magazine 17: 109-141.

Lack, H.W. (2004) An annotated catalogue of the printed illustrations by Franz Bauer (1758- 1840). Archives of Natural History 31: 80-101. Lack, H.W. and Ibáñez, V. (1997) Recording colour in late eighteenth century botanical drawings: Sydney Parkinson, Ferdinand Bauer and Thaddäus Haenke. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 14: 87-100.

Lack, H.W. (1997) The Sibthorpian herbarium at Oxford: guidelines for its use. Taxon 46: 253-63.

Lack, H.W. with Mabberley, D.J. (1999) The Flora Graeca story. Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant. Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford.

Mabberley, D. (1999) Ferdinand Bauer. The nature of discovery. Merrell Holberton Publishers, London.

Nelson, E.C. (1987) A prospectus for Flora Graeca, 1805. Linnean 5: 32-35.

Rhizopoulou, S. (2004) Symbolic plant(s) of the Olympic Games. Journal of Experimental Botany 55: 1601-1606.

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1806) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 1(1). R. Taylor et Soc., London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1808) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 1(2). R. Taylor et Soc., London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1813) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 2(1). R. Taylor et Soc., London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1816) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 2(2). R. Taylor et Soc., London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1819) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 3(1). R. & A. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1821) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 3(2). R. & A. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1823) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 4(1). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1824) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 4(2) R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1825) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 5(1). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1825) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 5(2). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1827) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 6(1). R. Taylor, London. Available Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1827) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 6(2). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1831) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 7(1). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1832) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 7(2). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1832) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 8(1). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1835) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 8(2). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1837) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 9(1). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1839) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 9(2). R. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1840) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 10(1). R. & J. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1840) Flora Graeca: sive Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 10(2). R. & J. Taylor, London. Available

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1806) Florae Graecae prodromus: sive Plantarum omnium enumeratio, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 1(1). R. Taylor et Soc., London.

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1809) Florae Graecae prodromus: sive Plantarum omnium enumeratio, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 1(2). R. Taylor et Soc., London.

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1813) Florae Graecae prodromus: sive Plantarum omnium enumeratio, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 2(1). R. Taylor et Soc., London.

Sibthorp, J. and Smith, J.E. (1816) Florae Graecae prodromus: sive Plantarum omnium enumeratio, quas in provinciis aut insulis Græciae 2(2). R. Taylor et Soc., London.

Sibthorp, J. (1794) Flora Oxoniensis, exhibens plantas in agro Oxoniensi sponte crescentes, secundum systema sexuale distributas. Typis Academicis, Oxford.

Smith, J.E. (1818) Sibthorp, John. In: Rees, A. (ed.) The Cyclopedia, vol. 32, p.4N. London.

Stearn, W.T. (1967) Sibthorp, Smith, the Flora Graeca and the Florae Graecae prodromus. Taxon 16: 168-178.

Stearn, W.T. (1976) From Theophrastus and Dioscorides to Sibthorp and Smith: the background and origin of the Flora Graeca'. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 8: 285- 298. Strid, A. and Strid, B. (2009) Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana. An annotated re-issue.Volumes 1-2 (plates 1-200). A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein.

Strid, A. and Strid, B. (2010) Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana. An annotated re-issue.Volumes 3-4 (plates 201-400). A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein.

Strid, A. and Strid, B. (2011) Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana. An annotated re-issue.Volumes 5-6 (plates 401-600). A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G., Ruggell, Liechtenstein.

Tappe, E.D. (1967) John Sibthorp in the Danubian lands, 1794. Revue des Études Sud-est Européennes 5: 461-473.

Trott, M. (2009) The Sibthorps of Canwick. The rise and fall of a dynasty. In: Brook, S., Walker, A. & Wheeler, R. (eds) Lincoln connections. Aspects of city and county since 1700. Society of Lincolnshire Heritage and Archaeology, Lincoln, pp. 43-58.

Turrill, W.B. (1926) Sibthorp in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1926: 111.

Turrill, W.B. (1938) A contribution to the botany of Athos Peninsula. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1937: 197-273.

Walpole, R. (1817) Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey edited from the manuscript journals. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London.

Walpole, R. (1818) Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and other countries of the East edited from the manuscript journals. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London.

Walpole, R. (1820) Travels in various countries of the East: being the continuation of memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, &c. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London.

Unpublished manuscripts in Oxford

MS Sherard 214. Incomplete copy of Sibthorp's diary of his journey to , labeled 'Sibthorpes first Journey to Greece 1786 . 7', covering the period 6th March 1786 to 7th May 1786 [16 pages]. For Sibthorp's diaries generally see Walpole (1817, 1820, 1820).

MS Sherard 215. Sibthorp's diary of a journey to Greece, 6th March 1786 to 7th December 1786 [163 pages; 104 pages with text]. Letter (apologising for the delayed return of the volume) from the Librarian in Magdalen College (Oxford; dated 10th June 1950) pasted into front. For Sibthorp's diaries generally see Walpole (1817, 1820, 1820).

MS Sherard 216. Sibthorp's Journal labelled 'Journal of the journey from through & Hungary to Constantinople in 1795', covering period 20th March 1794 to 19th May 1794 [157 pages; 58 pages with text]. Original leather binding with metal clasp. For Sibthorp's diaries generally see Walpole (1817, 1820, 1820). MS Sherard 217. Fragments of Sibthorp's Journal [87 pages]. 'Belgrade' (ff.1-4); 'Tour to Bursa & Olympus' (ff.5-71; not arranged chronologically); 'Athos' (ff.72-75, 78); blank (ff.76-77; 80-81); 'Pisces' (f.79); refers to Italy (f.82-83); 'Bosphorous' (ff.84-87). For Sibthorp's diaries generally see Walpole (1817, 1820, 1820).

MS Sherard 218. Sibthorp's miscellaneous papers [51 pages]. Letter from Joseph Benley (dated 15th June 1793) concerning arrival of plants for Botanic Garden, including plants from New South Wales, Australia (ff.1-2); letter from Johann Hedwig (dated 3rd December 1785) (ff.3-4;. in German); manuscript entitled 'Theoriae generationis et fructificationis plantarum cryptogamicarum emendationes' (ff.5-8); ); letter from Johann Hedwig (no date) (ff.10-11; in German); letter from Ener Wohleborn (March 1794) (ff.12-13; in German); note from Jas. Evening[?] (dated 23rd November) extending the Dean of Christ Church's apologies for not joining Sibthorp on journey to Cornwall (f.14); letter from Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (dated 1795) (ff.15-16; in German); letter from Peter Vere (no date) requesting alpine plants from Geneva for Lady Liddell (Ravensworth Castle, Durham) (ff.17-18; half of f.17 torn away]; Notes, autographed Wentworth (no date), concerning shells (ff.19-20); manuscript entitled 'Catalogus Seminum collectorum Horto R: Nosocomii Divae Mariae Novae Florentiae Anno 1789' (ff.21-25); manuscript entitled 'Excerpta ex Adversariis Botanicis Petricioli' (ff.26-27); notes on various genera of plants in Sibthorp's hand (ff.28-33); manuscript entitled 'Botanicorum Principi Josepho Banks Baronetto' in Sibthorp's hand (f.34); bibliographic list in Sibthorp's hand (ff.35, 42-45); notes on lichens and algae in Sibthorp's hand (ff.36-38); manuscript entitled 'List of Insects & their larvae which feed on British Plants taken from ye Flora Londinensis' in Sibthorp's hand (ff.39); list of plant names in Sibthorp's hand (ff.40-41); bill (f.46; in Greek and Latin); notes on seeds in Sibthorp's hand (f.47); note regarding missing books (f.48); manuscript entitled 'Route from Ostende to Vienna March 26th to April 12 1794' (ff.49-50); note regarding 'Giranium' cuttings (f.51).

MS Sherard 219. Course of thirty undergraduate lectures on botany by Sibthorp (lectures 14- 16 missing) [583 pages]. For introduction to these lectures, see Harris (2011).

MS Sherard 220. Bibliographical list in Sibthorp's hand of British and foreign botanists [90 pages].

MS Sherard 221-222. Alphabetical list of plants in Sibthorp's hand, with a note (dated 1910) by George Claridge Druce stating 'Plants found by Sibthorp 1780-1785'.

MS Sherard 223. List of plants from Dioscorides, entitled 'Commentarii in Dioscoricum', with determinations by Sibthorp [59 pages].

MS Sherard 224. List of plants, in Sibthorp's hand, titled 'Plantae Rariores nondum inventu Cambridgeshire' [21 pages].

MS Sherard 225. List of plants, in Sibthorp's hand, titled 'Slight Instructions for a Journey into Cornwall chiefly respecting the Objects of mineralogical Curiosity' [17 pages].

MS Sherard 226. List of plants, in Sibthorp's hand, titled 'Dubia Botanica Florae Oxoniensis', including rough notes [18 pages].

MS Sherard 227. List of plants, in Sibthorp's hand, titled 'Plantae Oxoniensis nondum detectae' [16 pages]. MS Sherard 228. Three notebooks of Sibthorp's entitled 'Flora Cryptogamica Oxoniensis' [109 pages].

MS Sherard 229. Manuscript of Sibthorp's Flora Oxoniensis (1794) [292 pages].

MS Sherard 230. List of plants, in Sibthorp's hand, titled 'Florae Danicae Icones' [18 pages].

MS Sherard 231. Notebook labelled 'No. 4 [...] Greek plants' [157 pages]. 'Flora Laconica' (ff.1-15); 'Hortus Byzantinus' (ff.16-20); 'Flora Byzantina' (ff.21-36); 'Medicinal & Economical Uses of certain Plants taken from the Pasari & Mark Stalls of Constantinople with their Names in Turkish' (ff.37-44); 'Modern Greek Names with ye. Economical Uses (ff.48-68); 'Flora Phocica' (ff.70-74); 'Plantae Flora Zacinthicae florentes in mense Januarii' (f.77); 'Flora Zacynthica' (ff.78-85); 'Hortus Zacinthus' (ff.87-93); 'Plantae amissae in Herbario' (ff.94-96); uses of plants from Greece (ff.97-115, 121-128; plant list labelled 'January' (ff.153-156). Original leather binding with metal clasp.

MS Sherard 232. Notebook labelled 'No. 6 Catalogue of the Animals of Zante and the neighbouring areas, with a list of the seeds there collected' [163 pages]. Animal list with Greek names (ff.1-33); 'Catalogue of Seeds collected 1794' with Greek names (ff.41-56); 'Extract from Mearsius of Laconian Plants' (f.157); 'Faunae Sardiniae' (ff. 158-163). Original leather binding with metal clasp.

MS Sherard 233/1. 'Sibthorp's List of Plants to be described in the Prodromus Flora Graeca Localities, Reference & c.' (annotations in George Claridge Druce's hand) [277 pages]

MS Sherard 233/2. 'List of Plants unlocalised Possibly of Plants gathered by himself in Britain, France & Greece etc.' [389 pages]

MS Sherard 234. 'Local Floras of Greece' in Sibthorp's hand [45 pages]. 'Flora Arcadiensis March 4' (ff.1-6); Flora Laconica' (ff.8-15); Flora Argolica' (ff.16-26); Flora Eliensis' (ff.28- 35); Flora Achaiea' (ff.36-39); 'Flora Attica?' [title in pencil; not Sibthorp's hand] (ff.40-43); 'Flora between Copochen and Bucharest' (ff.44-45).

MS Sherard 235. Alphabetical list of Greek plant names (in Sibthorp's hand), with botanical determinations [432 pages]

MS Sherard 236. Collection of notes relating to Greek plants [432 pages]. Comprises: annotated list of Greek plant names with scientific names (Sibthorp's hand; ff.1-236); list of animals (Sibthorp's hand; ff.237-252); Index to ff.1-236 (not Sibthorp's hand; ff.253-394); 'Dr. Falconer's Catalogue of plants mentioned by Greek Authors with their Latin Synonyms from Dr. Sibthorp' (Sibthorp's hand, except title; ff.397-429).

MS Sherard 237/1. Sibthorp's miscellaneous papers, mostly in Sibthorp's hand [278 pages]. List of unlocalised British plants (ff.1-85); list of unlocalised European plants (ff.86-167); list of unlocalised Greek plants with Greek names (ff.168-247,254-262); notes on medicinal uses of plants (ff.248-253); notebook with advice for Sibthorp on his travels in the Levant (ff.262- 276, includes a request from Robert Holmes for collation of theological manuscripts in Constantinople, f. 273); manuscript entitled 'Observations on Natural History. Fungi' (dated 20th October) in Sibthorp's hand (ff.277-278). MS Sherard 237/2. Sibthorp's miscellaneous papers, mostly in Sibthorp's hand [156 pages]. Manuscript, in Robert Steeven's hand (Carolina, 30th September 1701) entitled 'The grate Aromatik White Tulip Tree with a Lorrel leafe Evere greene' (f. 278-279); plant list from Flora Graeca in George Claridge Druce's hand (f.280); list of Greek plants (some localised and with Greek names) (ff.281-360), notes on Zante in Sibthorp's hand (ff.361-362, 369- 371); Sibthorp's Turkish diary entries 1st August-6th August (ff.363-364); Sibthorp's Greek diary fragment (ff.365-368); note entitled 'Athens to Zante 1794 Nov 17 to Nov. 28. Imperfect' (f.372); notes on the plants of Virgil's Georgics (ff.373-388); notes on the plants of Virgil's Eclogues (ff.389-404); list (dated October 1792) of fungi from Southoyle (f.405); list (dated October 27th) of fungi from Shotover Plantations (f.406); list of fungal names (ff.407- 429); notes on the uses of eastern Mediterranean and Indian plants (ff.430-433).

MS Sherard 237/3. Sibthorp's miscellaneous papers, mostly in Sibthorp's hand [175 pages]. Notes on various plant species (ff.434-441); list of Oxfordshire plants (ff.442-460); miscellaneous zoological notes both general and related to Expeditions (ff.461-580); bibliographic list (ff.581-607).

MS Sherard 238. 'Fauna Graeca Sibthorpiana, or Drawings of the Animals of Greece and the Levant, executed by Ferdinand Bauer for Dr. John Sibthorp but never engraved'. Mammalia, Amphibia, Pisces [97 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 239. 'Fauna Graeca Sibthorpiana, or Drawings of the Animals of Greece and the Levant, executed by Ferdinand Bauer for Dr. John Sibthorp but never engraved'. Pisces [98 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 240. 'Fauna Graeca Sibthorpiana, or Drawings of the Animals of Greece and the Levant, executed by Ferdinand Bauer for Dr. John Sibthorp but never engraved'. Aves [117 pages].Available.

MS Sherard 241. Watercolours for the Flora Graeca by Ferdinand Bauer. Ranunculaceae- Rutaceae [196 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 242. Watercolours for the Flora Graeca by Ferdinand Bauer. Rhamnaceae- Rubiaceae [208 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 243. Watercolours for the Flora Graeca by Ferdinand Bauer. Valerianaceae- Ericaceae [192 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 244. Watercolours for the Flora Graeca by Ferdinand Bauer. Styraceae- Plumbaginaceae [196 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 245. Watercolours for the Flora Graeca by Ferdinand Bauer. Amaranthaceae- Filices [172 pages]. Available.

MS Sherard 246. Pencil studies by Ferdinand Bauer of plants as part of the Flora Graeca project [23 pages].

MS Sherard 247. Pencil studies by Ferdinand Bauer of plants, fishes and birds for the Fauna Graeca and Flora Graeca [212 pages]. MS Sherard 248. Papers relating to the publication of the Flora Graeca (161 pages). Drafts of Sibthorp's will (ff.1-6); letter from William Jackson Hooker to Williams (dated 2nd November 1827) offering to take on work for Flora Graeca when Smith dies (ff.7-8); letter from Grace Williams to Charles Daubeny (dated April 19th) (ff.9-10); letters and documents regarding the estate of Dr Price (ff.6, 11-17); letters from Hawkins to Smith (ff. 19-46); letter from Smith (dated 9th August 1804) (f.47); letters from Sowerby to Smith (ff.49-80); note from Smith to Sowerby (dated 30th May 1827) regarding Mr Gray (f.81); letters relating to dispute over the Dioscorides manuscript (ff. 83-87); printed Flora Graeca prospectus (ff. 89- 91); draft title page and preface of Flora Graeca (ff.92-94); draft Flora Graeca accounts (dated 30th June 1821) (ff.95-96); notes on Flora Graeca finances (f.97); letter from Platt to Vice Chancellor (dated 8th July 1824) (ff.98-99); statement of the various fascicles of the Flora Graeca sent to Oxford (f.100); letter from Henry Ross (dated 16th December 1842) stating that there are only 25 copies of the Flora Graeca (f.101); draft of proposed clause for insertion in the Bill (f.102); sketch of Flaxman's memorial to Sibthorp (ff.103-104); letters from Platt regarding the Flora Graeca (ff.106-111b); letter from R. Taylor (ff.112-114); lists of returned Flora Graeca specimens (ff.115-117); list of Flora Graeca subscribers (ff.118); letters and documents relating to the sale of the remaining pages and copper plates of the Flora Graeca to Henry Bohn (ff.121-137); letter from Bracy Clark to John Sibthorp (dated October 1792) (ff.139-140); invitation to a social event in Oxford (f.141-142); manuscript entitled 'Praesdandissime Domine Sibthorpi!' (f.143); letter from Nicholas Strane (dated Patras, 27th Februaty 1795) regarding Sibthorp's plans for another Expedition (ff.144-145); letter from Willdenow (dated 28th March 1789) (ff.146-147); letter from Sibthorp to unknown correspondant (ff.148-149); instructions for stuffing birds (ff.150-151); letter from Lady Sewell (undated) (ff.152-153); manuscript entitled 'Observations sur queles especies de Plantes qui le trouvent au environs de Montpellier' (ff.155-159); manuscript entitled 'Extracted from the Annels of the College of Physicians in London' (ff.160-161).

MS Sherard 408. Pen and ink studies of Mediterranean scenes by Ferdinand Bauer [141 pages]. Available

MS Sheard 409. Papers relating to the legal case Trustees of the British Museum vs Payne & Foss. [105 pages]

MS Sherard 410. Miscellaneous items relating to the Flora Graeca project collected by George Claridge Druce [142 pages]. Items include account books for the Flora Graeca project (ff.1-30), transfer of material to the University at the end of the project (ff.31-35, 46, 48-54); drafts for Flaxman's memorial to Sibthorp in Bath Abbey (ff.55-56); background to the sale of the remaining material to Bohn (ff.58-82); letters relating to Druce's purchase of a copy of the Flora Graeca and associated materials (ff.88-94).