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Flora
Graeca 2000: Improving access to Oxford's finest botanical
treasure - Demonstration Project
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| General
Information
Institution
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University of Oxford |
| Department |
Department
of Plants Sciences |
| Title
of collection |
Flora
Graeca 2000: Improving access to Oxford's finest botanical
treasure - Demonstration Project |
| Funded
by: |
Oxford
Digital Library Development
Fund |
Length
of
collection/project |
May 2002 - May 2003 |
| Summary |
Sibthorp
and Smith's Flora Graeca, illustrated by Ferdinand Bauer
and often described as 'Oxford's finest botanical treasure',
is considered the most splendid and expensive Flora ever
produced. The collections include not only the printed
volumes but also the original hand-coloured drawings from
which the printed engravings were made, the original botanical
specimens they illustrate, unpublished drawings of the
Fauna Graeca and a unique series of topographcial Mediterranean
Scenes, also never published. Accompanying these are diaries
and notebooks from the two expeditions to the Levant in
which Sibthorp set out to discover the wild plants described
by Dioscorides in c.AD 60- and in doing so laid the foundations
for modern botanical exploration.
The project hopes to produce sample images, supporting
the immediate needs of the Flora Hellenica. Establishing
best practice for digitisation methods - from original
or photographic transparency, and creating stable Digital
Object Identifiers.
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Collection
Description
Subject
1
Subject 2
Time period
Region
Language
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Botantical treasure
Hand-coloured drawings
c.AD 60
Oxford
English
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| Contact
Details |
Roger
Mills
roger.mills@plantlib.ox.ac.uk
Librarian and Information Service Manager
Plant Science Library and Oxford Forest Information Service
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 2RB |
| URL |
Now
available for Oxford University users on the RLG Cultural
Materials site, at http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/rlgculture.htm
and via the odl
collections site |
| Record
updated |
15/11/2006 |
