M. Boym: Flora Sinensis

Boym’s Flora Sinensis from 1656 is one of the first (European) natural history books about China. Although the title suggests a book on Chinese plants, the author included some animals and some plants that are not „Chinese“.

• Boym, Michael:   Flora Sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens … / emissa in publicum a R.P. Michaele Boym …(Viennae Austriae: Typis Matthaei Rictij, 1656)
• Digitized:
  > Université de Namur
  > SLUB Dresden (URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-db-id3660131573 [VD17 23:230506U])
• Bibliographic references: VD17 23:230506U, VD17 23:230485H, BS 442, JL 1161, Löwendahl 0118
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie

French version:
Boym, M.:  Flora Sinensis, ou traité des fleurs, des fruits, des plantes et des animaux particuliers à la Chine, publié dans Relations de divers voyages curieux, …, Seconde partie, Paris, Langlois, 1664, 15 p. [French translation of the text by M. Thévenot]

• Digitized: HAB Wolfenbüttel (urn:nbn:de:gbv:23-drucke/55-5-hist-2f6)

Further information:

• Notes by Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin (2006)
  > Hartmut Walravens: Michael Boym und die Flora Sinensis. [pdf] (Erlangen: Hartmut Fischer Verlag 2002)
• Biographies of Michael Boym (in German)
  > Claudia von Collani: BOYM, Michal Piotr SJ. BBKL Band XIV. (1998) Sp. 818-820
  > Siegfried., „Boym, Michael“, in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 3 (1876), S. 222 [Onlinefassung]
  URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd115382267.html

Last update: January 31, 2014