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Simon Varey Papers Relating to Francisco Hernández 1992-2003

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Container List

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 Hern&#x00E1;ndez texts and translations geographically and chronologically, are based on the order established by Varey for vol. 1 of the Hern&#x00E1;ndez 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 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

Box 2, Folder 29

Herbs and herbals.

Box 2, Folder 30

Miscellaneous materials.

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

Box 2, Folder 32

20th century 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

Box 2, Folder 36

Glossaries of terms.

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

Box 2, Folder 40

Miscellaneous materials.

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

Box 2, Folder 42

20th century articles.

Box 2, Folder 43

Miscellaneous materials.

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 Hern&#x00E1;ndez 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

Box 2, Folder 52

Unclassified materials.

Container List

Francisco Hernández Project Management

Administrative Tasks

Editorial Tasks

Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: Mexico

Instructions and Letters to the King and the Will of Francisco Hernández

"The Antiquities of New Spain" and "Index Medicamentorum"

"Quatro Libros de la Naturaleza"

Other Hernández Texts

Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: The Low Countries

Johannes de Laet, 1593-1649

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, 1595-1658

Georg Marcgraf [Marggraf] (1610-1644 ), Willem Piso (1611-1678), and Hendrik and Abraham Munting (1626-1683 )

Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: Italy

The Recchi Texts

"Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus": The Rome Edition

Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: England

Robert Lovell (1630?-1690 ) and Henry Stubbe (1632-1676)

Hans Sloane (1660-1753) and John Ray (1627-1705 )

Other Authors

Chronology and Publishing History of Hernández Texts: Spain

Commentaries on Hernández' s Works and Influence

Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the New World

Plants of Special Importance: Cacao, Coffee, Tea, Tobacco

16th and 17th Centuries

General

Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the Old World

General

Impact of New World Plants, Drugs, and Diseases on the Old

General Botany

General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the New World

General History (Science, Politics, Culture) of the Old World

Spain

Italy

Other Countries in Europe, and General

Miscellaneous Materials

Simon Varey Personal Papers

Rafael Chabrán Personal Papers

General Miscellany.