Simon Varey Papers Relating to Francisco Hernández 1992-2003
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Simon Varey Papers Relating to Francisco Hernández,
Date (inclusive): 1992-2003
Collection number: 87
Creator: Varey, Simon 1951-2002
Extent:
2 storage cartons,
1 document box
(30 linear inches)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections
Division
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection consists of materials stemming from
Simon Varey's Hernández research, which culminated in the editorship of
two volumes: 1) "The Mexican Treasury; the Writings of Dr. Francisco
Hernández" (English translations of some of Hernández's primary
texts, and an unraveling of the complex history of the discovery and
dissemination of his writings); 2) "Searching for the Secrets of Nature; the
Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández" (interpretive essays by
various authors, edited with Rafael Chabrán and Dora B. Weiner). The
eminent physician Francisco Hernández was sent to New Spain in 1570 by
King Philip II of Spain as the first "protomédico de las Indias", to
gather scientific descriptions of indigenous natural history and medical
practices. Purchase by the UCLA Biomedical Library in 1992 of Hernández'
"Thesaurus" ("Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus"), published in Rome in
1651, sparked wide scholarly interest in Hernández' life and work. Simon
Varey joined a group of scholars at UCLA in the organization of a lecture series
and two major conferences built around Hernández, and became a major
force in the project to translate significant portions of the Hernández
texts into English. The Varey papers include copies of 16th and 17th century
texts, historical and contemporary commentaries, documents pertaining to New
World natural history and the impact discoveries from the New World had on
Europe, and extensive bibliographies and notes.
Physical location: Collection stored off-site (Southern Regional
Library Facility): Advance notice required for access.
Language of Material: Collection materials in English, Spanish,
Nahuatl
Access
The collection is open for research. Contact the History and Special
Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, for
information.
Conditions of Use
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Simon Varey papers relating to Francisco Hernández (Manuscript collection 87). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Acquisition Information
The papers were a gift of Mr. Varey's wife, Carol A. Sommer, to the UCLA
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division.
Biography
Simon Varey (1951-2002) excelled as teacher, writer, scholar, critic, editor,
and great cook. He served for sixteen years as tutor, instructor, and professor
of English at Cambridge University, the University of Utrecht, and at UCLA,
publishing well-received works on Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry Fielding, and the
18th-century English novel. In 1990 he joined the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. In 1992, occasioned by the 500th anniversary of Columbus'
arrival in the New World, the UCLA Biomedical Library History and Special
Collections Division bought the 1651 Rome edition of the writings of Francisco
Hernández, a 16th century Spanish physician who was sent by Philip II to
collect and report on the medical knowledge of the New World. This acquisition
sparked Dr. Varey's and many other scholars' interest in Hernández' life
and works, and led to a yearlong lecture series on "Medicine in the Age of
Columbus," two conferences on "The Meeting of Two Cultures" at the National
Library of Medicine in Bethesda and at UCLA, and the resolve to translate and
publish parts of the Hernández texts into English, which had never been
done.
With funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities and other donors,
and sponsorship by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, two volumes
were published by Stanford University Press in 2000: "Searching for the Secrets
of Nature: the Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández," and "The
Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández." Simon Varey,
with Rafael Chabrán and Dora Weiner, served as editor of both volumes,
wrote several chapters, translated some of the original texts, and contributed
an enormous amount of scholarly research towards unraveling the complicated
history of Hernández's work and its dissemination.
In 1996 Varey shifted to the Development Office of the UCLA College of
Letters and Science, and in 2000 be became Director of Grant Development of the
California Science Center. His involvement in the scholarship of the 18th
century continued during this time; he undertook various editorial assignments
for the "Scriblerian", an English literary history journal, ending with becoming
its co-editor.
Scope and Content
The Simon Varey Hernández Project papers cover two areas: 1)
management of the Project and creation of its final product, "The Mexican
Treasury" and "Searching for the Secrets of Nature", both volumes edited by
Varey and others; and 2) research materials needed to create and edit the
content of these volumes, namely notes, lists, correspondence, copies of
manuscripts and articles, chapters, illustrations. The collection includes paper
documents and computer disks which duplicate partially, but mostly complement
each other.
The management portion constitutes circa 10% of the collection bulk, with
materials generated within one decade, 1991-2001. (Additional information on the
Project may be held in the archives of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies.) Except for a miniscule number of personal and
miscellaneous items, the rest of the collection consists of the research
materials generated by Varey (and Chabrán) as they worked to unravel the
immensely complicated story of Hernández's writings and their
dissemination. The documents of this portion date from the 1570's to late
1990's.
The collection consists of 101 folder, organized into 13 series and numerous
subseries. Varey's chapter arrangement in "The Mexican Treasury" was adopted for
organizing the documents dealing with Hernández texts.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Francisco Hernández Project Management, 1991-2001. 11
folders
- Series 2. Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Mexico, 1571-1615. 18 folders
- Series 3. Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: The
Low Countries, 1630-1648. 12 folders and 1 microfilm
- Series 4. Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Italy, 16th-17th cent.. 9 folders and 1 microfilm
- Series 5. Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
England, 17th cent.. 9 folders
- Series 6. Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Spain, 18th, 20th cent.. 4 folders
- Series 7. Commentaries on Hernández' s Works and Influence,
18th-20th cent.. 2 folders
- Series 8. Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the New World, 16th-20th cent..
15 folders
- Series 9. Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the Old World, 20th cent.. 3
folders
- Series 10. General Botany, 20th cent.. 3 folders
- Series 11. General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the New World,
20th cent.. 4 folders
- Series 12. General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the Old World,
20th cent.. 7 folders
- Series 13. Miscellaneous Materials, 20th cent.. 4 folders and 14 computer
disks
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Hernaìndez,
Francisco, |d 1517-1587.
Varey, Simon,
1951-2002
Materia
Medica-history-Mexico.
Natural history-Mexico- Pre-Linnean
works.
Series 1.
Francisco Hernández Project Management
1991-2001
Physical Description: 11 folders
Scope and Content Note
contains Varey's files on grants and contracts, publisher relations, and
editorial tasks.
Subseries 1.
Administrative Tasks
1992-2001
Physical Description: 4 folders
Scope and Content Note
in addition to folders, see also [Box 3] computer disk #8: folders "CORRESP"
and "FINANCE", and disk A for additional documents
Box 1, Folder 1
National Endowment for the Humanities.
1992-1997
Scope and Content Note
proposal draft; evaluators' comments; progress report; correspondence
Box 1, Folder 2
Ahmanson Foundation and other funding.
1992-1995
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
Box 1, Folder 3
Stanford University Press.
1992-1997
Scope and Content Note
correspondence; drafts and proposals; publication contract
Box 1, Folder 4
Publicity for the Hernández Project volumes "The Mexican
Treasury" and "Searching for the Secrets of Nature".
2000-2001
Subseries 2.
Editorial Tasks
1991-2000
Physical Description: 7 folders
Scope and Content Note
includes contact with editors, contributors, and translators; selection of
texts and images; see also [Box 3] computer disk #8: folders "CORRESP" and
"FINANCE", and disk A for additional documents
Box 1, Folder 5
Interactions with contributors, translators, editors.
1994-2000
Scope and Content Note
guidelines; lists of potential contributors; problems of translations and
terminology; e-mail and letters
Box 1, Folder 6
Materials and potential materials needing translation.
1996-1997
Box 1, Folder 7
European tour by Varey and Chabrán.
1995
Scope and Content Note
notes; correspondence; bibliographic descriptions in a folder labeled
"European Tour, 1995"
Note
the tour included libraries in Spain, Italy, France, and England, and
its focus was to unravel the history of the publications and disseminations of
Hernández texts
Box 1, Folder 8
Notes regarding chronology of Hernández texts.
Box 1, Folder 9
Bibliographic lists and notes.
1991-1995
Scope and Content Note
a variety of handwritten and typed titles and notes; some correspondence
Box 1, Folder 10
Bibliographic lists and notes from named libraries, catalogs, or
dealers.
Scope and Content Note
lists and catalogs from specific individuals, libraries, book sellers, or
computer databases
Box 1, Folder 11
Illustrations for the Hernández Project volumes.
Physical Description: photocopies; photographs; 27 slides; CD-ROM /944 images; 27 overhead
cels
Scope and Content Note
potential and used images; endpapers; permissions needed for publication
Note
see also computer zip disks 1 and 2 [Box 3, Item 3]
Series 2.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Mexico
1571-1615
Physical Description: 18 folders
Scope and Content Note
the subseries, which group Hernández texts and translations
geographically and chronologically, are based on the order established by Varey
for vol. 1 of the Hernández Project, "The Mexican Treasury" ed.
by Simon Varey, Stanford, 2000; see also computer disks [Box 3]
Subseries 1.
Instructions and Letters to the King and the Will of Francisco
Hernández
1572-1581
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 1, Folder 12
Letters to the King (Philip II).
1572-1581
Scope and Content Note
six letters from Hernández and one from his geographer, Francisco
Dominguez, to the King, photocopied from: "Celeccion de documentos
inéditos para la historia de España", by Don Martin Fernandez
Navarrete, et al., vol. 1, 1842; bits of Varey's English translation on the
back
Box 1, Folder 13
Francisco Hernández's will.
1578, 1929
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of the holograph will; photocopy of a Spanish-language article
Subseries 2.
"The Antiquities of New Spain" and "Index Medicamentorum"
16th-17th cent.
Physical Description: 7 folders
Box 1, Folder 14
"The Antiquities of New Spain".
Scope and Content Note
photocopies from an unidentified publication of "How Mexican women give
birth..." and "Doctors called titici", in English and Spanish; article on "The
Antiquities...", from "Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanico", vol. XVII(2),
1993
Box 1, Folder 15
Francisco Hernández: "Materia medicinal de la nueua
España".
ca. 1576
Scope and Content Note
photocopied pages from a manuscript in Spanish; notes for a "Viator" article;
photocopy of letter from Miguel Figueroa to Prof. Chabrán
Note
materials are from a folder labeled: "Mss: Madrid Jardìn
Botanico Complutense 6.151 Her"; the notes pertain to Univ. Complutense mss.
#624: Hernández "Materia medicinal..." but the photocopied mss. pages do
not match the online images of that work; Mss. 6.151 Her and the photocopied
pages remain unidentified; see text on p. 8 of "The Mexican Treasury"
Box 3, Folder 1
Juan Barrios (fl. 1590-1610): "Verdadera medicina, cirugía y
astrología".
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of text published by Fernando Balli in Mexico City, 1607
Box 1, Folder 16
Juan Barrios: excerpts and translations, mainly from the Wellcome
Institute copy of "Verdadera medicina..., 1607".
Box 1, Folder 17
Juan Barrios: various materials.
Scope and Content Note
Spanish and English text extracts and translations; articles by
Chabrán and Varey, and others; biography; notes
Box 1, Folder 18
Gregorio López (1542-1596): "El tesoro de medicinas..." ("De
la virtud de las yerbas...").
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of ms. #1716, collection of Cardinal Riti
Note
Archivio Segreto Vaticano Ms. Riti 1716
Box 1, Folder 19
Gregorio López: "El tesoro de medicinas...", transcribed by
Francisco Guerra, Madrid
1982
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of pp. 369-428, with marginal notes by Varey; 20th century
article
Note
Archivio Segreto Vaticano Ms. Riti 1716
Subseries 3.
"Quatro Libros de la Naturaleza"
17th, 20th
cent.
Physical Description: 7 folders
Box 1, Folder 20
Francisco Ximénez [Jiménez] (d. 1620): "Quatro libros:
De la natvraleza, y virtvdes de las plantas, y animales...", Mexico,
1615
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of title page; 20th century articles
Box 1, Folder 21
Table of contents for an unidentified printed edition of "Quatro
libros".
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of pp. 287-294 titled: "Tabla de los medicamentos simples..." and
pp. 295-298 titled: "Tabla para hallos los remedios..."
Box 1, Folder 22
Index to the plants, animals and minerals in the works of Francisco
Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
typed drafts of lists of plants, animals, and minerals described by
Hernández, noting locations in the various versions of his works
Box 1, Folder 23
Index to the plants in Hernández's "Quatro
libros".
Scope and Content Note
drafts of extensive tables of Náhuatl species names, noting their
locations in 11 versions of his works
Box 1, Folder 24
Index of Náhuatl and scientific plant names, uses.
Scope and Content Note
drafts of: 1) an extensive table of Náhuatl names from the "Obras
completas", their scientific equivalents, and uses; 2) table of 212 plants
(names not given) and their uses in Barrios, López and Recchi; additional
notes and photocopies
Box 1, Folder 25
Pages of Hernández plant descriptions, in English and
Spanish.
Scope and Content Note
photocopies from various sources
Box 1, Folder 26
Augustín de Vetancurt (1620-1700): "Teatro mexicano:
descripcion breve de los svcessos exemplares historicos...", Mexico City,
1698.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of some pages of the work, with a few Varey or Chabrán
marginal notes
Note
see pp. 17 and 157 of "The Mexican Treasury" for mention of
Vetancurt
Subseries 4.
Other Hernández Texts
20th
cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Scope and Content Note
includes "The Christian Doctrine" and "La historia natural de Plinio..."
Box 3, Folder 2
Francisco Hernández: "The Christian Doctrine".
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Spanish translation of Latin poem in three parts, from "Obras
completas...", ed. by Germán Somolinos d'Adois, Mexico City, UNAM, vol.
6; notes
Box 1, Folder 27
Francisco Hernández: "La historia natural de
Plinio...".
Scope and Content Note
book review [in Spanish] of a 1998 edition of Hernández's
translation
Series 3.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: The Low
Countries
1630-1648
Physical Description: 12 folders and 1 microfilm
Scope and Content Note
see also computer disks [Box 3]
Subseries 1.
Johannes de Laet, 1593-1649
17th
cent.
Physical Description: 3 folders and 1 microfilm
Box 1, Folder 28
Johannes de Laet: Latin translation of Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of manuscript headed: "Plantarum Americanarum descriptio"
Note
British Library Sloane mss. 1555
Box 3, Folder Film #1
Johannes de Laet: Latin translation of Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
microfilm of British Library Sloane mss. 1555
Box 1, Folder 29
Various materials on de Laet.
Scope and Content Note
notes; photocopies
Box 1, Folder 30
Lucas Holstenius [Holste] (1596-1661).
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of holograph letter from de Laet to Lucas Holstenius, dated Oct.
18, 1636 (BPL 1830); 1993 letter from Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana to Varey,
with information about Holste
Note
see p. 11 and note #43 on p. 17 of "The Mexican Treasury" for mention
of Holste
Subseries 2.
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, 1595-1658
17th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 3, Folder 3
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg: "Historia naturae, maxime peregrine",
Antwerp, 1635.
Scope and Content Note
32 photocopied pages of Latin manuscript text of Francisco Hernández's
"De partibus septuaginta octo maximi templi Mexicani...", which Nieremberg
incorporated into his work, and the corresponding printed chapter XXII of
Nieremberg's volume
Box 1, Folder 31
Various notes on Nieremberg and James Petiver
(1663-1718).
Note
Petiver's marginal annotations, concerned largely with
Hernández, are found in the UCLA Clark Library copy of Nieremberg and the
1658 Piso/Marcgraf volume in the British Library; see also Box 2 Folder
8
Box 1, Folder 32
Christophe Plantin (1520-1589).
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of articles; notes on visit to Plantin Museum archives
Note
Plantin was the Antwerp printer who published Nieremberg's "Historia
naturae...; he undertook a number of commissions for Philip II
Box 1, Folder 33
Antonio de León Pinelo (1590/91?-1660).
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of title page and contents of: "Epitome de la biblioteca oriental
i occidental...", Madrid, 1629; various notes
Note
Léon Pinelo had seen manuscript volumes of Hernández's
work on the plants of New Spain
Subseries 3.
Georg Marcgraf [Marggraf] (1610-1644 ), Willem Piso (1611-1678), and
Hendrik and Abraham Munting (1626-1683 )
17th-18th cent.
Physical Description: 5 folders
Box 1, Folder 34
Georg Marcgraf.
Scope and Content Note
various notes
Box 1, Folder 35
Willem Piso.
Scope and Content Note
various notes
Box 1, Folder 36
"A portrait of Dutch 17th century Brazil: Animals, plants and people
by the artists of Johan Maurits of Nassau", by P.J.P. Whitehead and M. Boeseman,
Amsterdam, 1989
Scope and Content Note
partial photocopy of text, bibliography and illustrations; typed half-page
biography of John Maurice of Nassau
Note
discusses Marcgraf and Piso, among others
Box 1, Folder 37
Abraham and Hendrik Munting.
Scope and Content Note
typed notes from "Nauwkeurige beschrijving der Aardgewassen", Utrecht, 1696;
other notes
Box 1, Folder 38
Other authors.
Scope and Content Note
notes on: Arnaut Vosmaer (1720-1799): "Natuurkundige beschryving eener
uitmuntende verzameling van zeldsaame gedierten...", Amsterdam, 1766-1804; Paul
Hermann (1646?-1695): "Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus...", Leiden,
1687
Series 4.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Italy
16th-17th cent.
Physical Description: 9 folders and 1 microfilm
Scope and Content Note
see also computer disks [Box 3]
Subseries 1.
The Recchi Texts
16th-17th
cent.
Physical Description: 3 folder and 1 microfilm
Box 3, Folder 4
Nardo Antonio Recchi manuscript: his selection from the "Natural
History of New Spain" ("De materia medica Novae Hispaniae") of
Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Latin text
Note
John Carter Brown Library codex Latin 5
Box 1, Folder 39
Nardo Antonio Recchi manuscript: his selection from the "Natural
History of New Spain" ("De materia medica Novae Hispaniae") of
Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Latin text including indexes, in smaller size than copy above,
and notes on organization of the manuscript
Note
John Carter Brown Library codex Latin 5
Box 3, Folder Film #2
Nardo Antonio Recchi manuscript: his selection from the "Natural
History of New Spain" ("De materia medica Novae Hispaniae") of
Hernández.
Scope and Content Note
microfilm copy of John Carter Brown Library codex Latin 5, Brown University,
Providence, R.I.
Box 1, Folder 40
Nardo Antonio Recchi manuscript: Recchi's indexes.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of manuscript; typed table of plant names with location comparison
in Recchi and Hernández manuscripts
Subseries 2.
"Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus": The Rome
Edition
17th-20th cent.
Physical Description: 6 folders
Box 1, Folder 41
"Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus".
1986
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of papers from the "Atti dei convegni Lincei 78", Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei; notes
Note
Prince Federico Cesi (1603-1630), founder of the Lincei Academy in
Rome, obtained a copy of Recchi's Hernández manuscript and used it as the
basis for the Lincei editions of "Rerum..."
Box 1, Folder 42
Johann Faber (1570-1640): "Animalia Mexicana, descriptionibus,
scholijsq. exposita. Thesavri rerum medicarum novae hispaniae...", Rome,
1628.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of title and other pages
Note
includes all of Hernández's descriptions of animals, taken from
Recchi's "Rerum medicarum..."
Box 1, Folder 43
Fabio Colonna (1567-1650): "Fabii Colvmnae Lyncei, Purpvra, hoc est,
De purpura ab animali testaceo fusa...", Rome.
1616
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of the work; notes
Box 1, Folder 44
Agustin Farfan (d. 1604): "Tractado breve de medicina...", Mexico,
1592.
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of title page and index of 1944 facsimile edition; 20th century
article
Box 1, Folder 45
Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657).
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of holograph (1649, Latin) and published (1634, Italian) letters
to dal Pozzo; typed notes from a Vatican manuscript
Note
see pp. 4 and 11 of "The Mexican Treasury" for references to dal
Pozzo
Box 1, Folder 46
Other research materials related to the Rome edition.
Scope and Content Note
includes short biographies, articles, etc. on: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc,
comte de (1707-1788); Clavijero, Francisco Saverio (1731-1787); Paracelsus
(Hohenheim, Theophrastus Bombastus von) 1493-1541; and other notes
Note
see: p. 18 of "The Mexican Treasury" by Varey and Chabrán for
mention of Buffon and Clavijero; p. 174, etc. of "Searching for the Secrets of
Nature" by Varey et al. for Paracelsus
Series 5.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
England
17th cent.
Physical Description: 9 folders
Scope and Content Note
see also computer disks [Box 3]
Subseries 1.
Robert Lovell (1630?-1690 ) and Henry Stubbe (1632-1676)
17th cent.
Physical Description: 3 folders
Box 2, Folder 1
Robert Lovell: "Pambotanologia", Oxford, 1665
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of text; notes
Box 2, Folder 2
Henry Stubbe: "The Indian nectar, or, A discourse concerning
chocolata...." London, 1662.
Scope and Content Note
partial photocopy of Stubbe text; notes
Box 2, Folder 3
"Physicians and the new philosophy: Henry Stubbe and the
virtuosi-physicians", by Harold J. Cook.
Scope and Content Note
chapter from: "The medical revolution of the seventeenth century", ed. by
Roger French and Andrew Wear, Cambridge, 1989
Subseries 2.
Hans Sloane (1660-1753) and John Ray (1627-1705 )
17th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 2, Folder 4
Hans Sloane: "Natural History of Jamaica" and "Catalogus plantarum
quae in insula Jamaica...".
Scope and Content Note
photocopies and translations of Sloane texts; drafts of a paper by
Chabrán and Varey; short biography of Sloane; notes
Box 2, Folder 5
John Ray: "Historiæ plantarum tomus secundus cum duplici indice...",
London, 1688.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of title page and pp. 1929-1943: "Compendium Historiæ
Plantarum Mexicanarum Francisci Hernandez"; notes
Box 2, Folder 6
"The Correspondence of John Ray...", ed. by Edwin Lankester, London,
The Ray Society, 1848.
Scope and Content Note
typed excerpts from the published volume, covering letters from 1668 to
1704
Box 2, Folder 7
Related research materials.
Scope and Content Note
notes about various publications on Jamaica
Subseries 3.
Other Authors
17th cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 8
James Petiver (1663?-1718).
Scope and Content Note
drafts of a speech or article by Varey and Chabrán; notes
Note
see also Box 1, Folder 31
Box 2, Folder 9
Various authors.
Scope and Content Note
notes or texts: Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802): "The botanic garden", London,
1825; Edmund Burke (1729-1797): "An account of the European settlements in
America"; Pierre Pomet (1658-1699): "A compleat history of druggs"; Antonio
Colmenero de Ledesma: "A curious treatise of the nature and quality of
chocolate"; Jean Baptiste Labat (1663-1738): "Naouveau voyage aux Isles de
L'Americque"; James Newton (1639-1718): "A compleat herbal..."; Samuel Doody
(1656-1706)
Note
Pomet was read and quoted by Sloane and Petiver; Newton and Doody were
botanists who grew American plants in England
Series 6.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts:
Spain
18th, 20th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Scope and Content Note
see also computer disks [Box 3]
Box 2, Folder 10
"Opera" of Hernández, ed. by Casimiro Gómez Ortega,
Madrid, 1790, and "Historia de las plantas de la Nueva España", Mexico
City, 1942-46.
Scope and Content Note
typed Latin extract from Wellcome Institute copy of the "Opera" and English
listing of volume contents; book review of a volume about the "Historia"
Box 2, Folder 11
Francisco Hernández: "Ad ariam Montanum...".
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of printed Latin text of Hernández's poem, from the preface
of the "Opera", published by Gómez Ortega, with portrait of Benito Arias
Montano (1527-1598); FAX of an article by Tarsicio Herrera Zapién: "Los
valores del poema latino de Hernández" (no source indicated), with poem's
Spanish translation; page proofs and reprint of an article by Chabrán and
Varey including the poem's English translation (in: "The Huntington Library
Quarterly", 55(4):621-634, 1992)
Box 2, Folder 12
Benito Arias Montano: Correspondence with Juan de Ovando
(1568-1573).
Scope and Content Note
photocopy from "Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia", 19:
476-498, 1891 (in Spanish)
Box 2, Folder 13
Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745-1799 ).
Scope and Content Note
some photocopied pages from a catalog of his library
Note
Muñoz discovered some drafts of Hernández's manuscripts
in Madrid and alerted Casimiro Gómez Ortega, who edited the "Opera",
Madrid, 1790
Series 7.
Commentaries on Hernández' s Works and Influence
18th-20th cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 14
18th and 19th century articles.
Note
in German and English
Box 2, Folder 15
20th century articles.
Scope and Content Note
includes an article by Varey and Chabrán: "Medical natural history in
the Renaissance: the strange case of Francisco Hernández"
Note
in Spanish and English
Series 8.
Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the New World
16th-20th cent.
Physical Description: 15 folders
Scope and Content Note
indexes and descriptions of plants, especially those thought to be
therapeutic, with special attention to chocolate, coffee, tea, and tobacco. Some
materials refer to animals and other organic substances that had medicinal uses;
see also computer disks [Box 3]
Subseries 1.
Plants of Special Importance: Cacao, Coffee, Tea, Tobacco
16th-20th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 2, Folder 16
Cacao (chocolate), 17th-19th cent.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (1622-1687): "Traitez nouveaux et
curieux du café, du thé, et du chocolate...", Lyon, 1685; other
articles; notes
Box 2, Folder 17
Cacao (chocolate), 20th cent.
Scope and Content Note
articles; notes
Box 2, Folder 18
Coffee and tea.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Richard Twining: "Observations on the Tea and Window Act",
London, 1794; notes
Box 2, Folder 19
Tobacco.
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of Bartolomeo Marradon: "Dialogo del vso del tabaco...", Seville,
1618; articles; notes; photograph of 16th cent. illustration
Subseries 2.
16th and 17th Centuries
16th-17th
cent.
Physical Description: 7 folders
Box 2, Folder 20
The Badianus manuscript: an Aztec herbal (by Martin de la Cruz,
translated into Latin by Juan Badiano, 1552).
Scope and Content Note
20th cent. descriptions of the original, in English and Spanish; unidentified
publication of contents and dedication in Latin and English; articles in
Spanish
Note
original in Vatican Library: Codex Barberini, Latin 241
Box 2, Folder 21
Background information on 16th cent. Spanish America.
Scope and Content Note
information downloaded from "The Relaciones Geográficas Collection",
Texas, related mostly to questionaires circulated by the Spanish Crown 1578,
1581; other articles
Box 2, Folder 22
José de Acosta (1540-1600): "The natvrall and morall historie
of the East and West Indies...", London, 1604.
Scope and Content Note
partial translation into English
Box 2, Folder 23
Nicolás Monardes (ca. 1512-1588): "La historia medicinal de
las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (1565-1574)".
Scope and Content Note
photocopy of 74 p. introduction by Jose Maria Lopez Piñero to
Monardes' "Historia..."; 10 pages of beginning of English translation of
Monardes: "Ioyfull newes out of the new-found vvorlde...", possibly from the
1590 ed.; notes
Box 2, Folder 24
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557):
"Historia general y natural de la Indias (1535-1549)".
Scope and Content Note
20th century article; notes
Box 2, Folder 25
Various authors.
Scope and Content Note
texts and miscellaneous notes: Carolus Clusius (1526-1609); William Coles
(1626-1662); Abraham Cowley (1618-1667); Garcia de Orta (16th cent.); Robert
Guillaume Dubois (1656-1723); Richard Ligon (fl. 1657); Edward Long (1734-1813);
John Parkinson (1567-1650); Richard Pulteney (1730-1801); John Peachi (fl.
1683); William Salmon (1644-1713)
Note
the works cited are often concerned with both Old and New World plants
and matters
Box 2, Folder 26
Medical plants and treatments.
Scope and Content Note
20th century articles and book contents
Subseries 3.
General
20th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 2, Folder 27
Medicinal plants.
Scope and Content Note
lists of plant names, with notes, descriptions, etc.
Box 2, Folder 28
Medicinal plants in the 20th century.
Scope and Content Note
journal articles
Series 9.
Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the Old World
20th cent.
Physical Description: 3 folders
Scope and Content Note
documents and commentaries on the medical and therapeutic practices of
Europe, and how these were influenced by the knowledge and physical objects
imported from the New World.
Subseries 1.
General
17th, 20th cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 31
Herbs and herbals.
Scope and Content Note
photocopies and articles
Subseries 2.
Impact of New World Plants, Drugs, and Diseases on the
Old
20th cent.
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 2, Folder 33
20th century articles and chapters.
Series 10.
General Botany
20th
cent.
Physical Description: 3 folders
Box 2, Folder 34
Botanic gardens and institutions.
Scope and Content Note
photocopies of articles, illustrations; notes
Box 2, Folder 35
History of botany and botanical illustration.
Scope and Content Note
mostly 20th century articles; notes
Series 11.
General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the New
World
20th cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders
Box 2, Folder 37
Materials in English and Spanish.
Scope and Content Note
journal articles; e-mails
Box 2, Folder 38
The Náhuatl language.
Scope and Content Note
word lists; articles; notes
Box 2, Folder 39
Foods.
Scope and Content Note
20th century articles; miscellany
Series 12.
General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the Old
World
20th cent.
Physical Description: 7 folders
Scope and Content Note
documents and commentaries on general historical backgrounds, and especially
on the interaction of ideas and practices between Europe and the Americas.
Subseries 1.
Spain
20th cent.
Physical Description: 3 folders
Box 2, Folder 41
Andrés de Laguna (1499-1559).
Scope and Content Note
20th century article; miscellany
Subseries 2.
Italy
20th cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 44
History and description of the Vatican Library.
Box 2, Folder 45
20th century articles and chapters.
Subseries 3.
Other Countries in Europe, and General
20th
cent.
Physical Description: 2 folders
Box 2, Folder 46
Food.
Scope and Content Note
notes; articles; book review
Note
Simon Varey was interested in food and cooking
Box 2, Folder 47
20th century articles, lectures, and notes.
Series 13.
Miscellaneous Materials
20th
cent.
Physical Description: 4 folders and 14 computer disks
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous notes and printed materials; also computer diskettes with
project-related notes and publication drafts.
Subseries 1.
Simon Varey Personal Papers
1990-2000
Physical Description: 3 folders and 14 computer disks
Scope and Content Note
narrow scope; the overwhelming bulk of these materials pertains to the
Hernández Project
Box 2, Folder 48
Obituaries.
2003
Scope and Content Note
from "Viva Vox: the Newsletter of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies", 5(1): 9, 2002/03 and from "The Center and Clark Newsletter
On Line" no. 39, Spring, 2002; also, short hiring announcement from the
California Science Center, 2001
Box 2, Folder 49
Translations, editorial tasks, and other documents.
Scope and Content Note
photocopies or original pages from Michael Florent van Langren's "La
verdadera longitud por mar y tierra...", 1644, with drafts and final translation
from Spanish, Latin and French by Simon Varey; correspondence; some edited
manuscript pages
Box 2, Folder 50
Guest lecture, UCLA Chicano Studies 197 E.
1996
Scope and Content Note
course outline; lecture outline; class readings and background materials
Box 3, Folder Items #3 and #4
Simon Varey's computer disks.
Physical Description: 12 computer diskettes, 2 zip disks
Scope and Content Note
disk content largely parallels paper contents of the collection:
Hernández and other original texts and commentaries; drafts and
translations of Varey, Chabrán, and others' articles, lectures, chapters,
etc.; correspondence, outlines, proposals re. Hernández Project and its
published volumes. Disk labels: zip disks #1 and #2: "some Hernández
images"; disk #1: "Mestizaje Nueva España s.XVI"; disk #2: "Risse 'New
Spain hospitals' update Aug. 1995"; disk #3: "Valenia '95/MsM (File Maker Pro.
20)"; disk A: "Revised Hernández proposal (post-NEH), 1992-93"; disk B:
"Hernández texts 'To Arias Moontano'"; disk C: FHTr (2 files), Hern. doc
(5 files)"; disk #4: "FH indexes, MedClass"; disk #5: "Barrios, Barrios
López, FH text selection, Sloane on allspice"; disk #6: "(some) FH
translations"; disk #7: "Stemma [flow chart], FH logos, Cynthia (dir),
Hernández var"; disk #8: "Essays, articles, biblio, corresp., finance";
disk #9: "'Question moral', 'Heredia'"
Note
disks #1-#3 use Macintosh operating system; all others use IBM
Microsoft Word
Subseries 2.
Rafael Chabrán Personal Papers
1990-2000
Physical Description: 1 folder
Box 2, Folder 51
Journal article and request for sabbatical leave.
Subseries 3.
General Miscellany.
Physical Description: 1 folder