Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
‘FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 41s
Olaus Rudbeck, the father, Doétor and Profeflor of phyficin the univerfity of Upfal,
born at Welteros in 1630, died at. Upfal the 7th September 1702. His funeral ora-
tion was read by John Etberg, Profeflor of theology, and printed in 1703, m 4to. It
is to be feenin Chri/t. Nettelbladt. Memoria virorum in Suecia eruditifimorum redivive
Semi-decas, \V. Roftock, 1731, in~8vo., p. 161—208. _ Father Niceron has made ufe
of it in giving the life of our Rudbeck, Memoires, book xxxi. 153. and following
pages. Being a foreigner, Father Niceron has committed fome errors, which require
rectification. z
Fifty-one years after the death of Rudbeck, a fmall medal was ftruck in honor of
him, on one fide of which was a profile of that learned man, encircled with this infcrip-
tion: Olaus Rudbeck Pater. Prof. Upfal.; and on the other, the conftellation of the
leffer bear, with thefe words: Tot Fulgent Luminain Uno. On the exergue is written,
VIVO DECR. HONORES REDDITI A° MDCCLIIL AB. EXITV. LI.
This article, relating to one of the rareft works that has appeared in Sweden, and de-
figned for the library of the late Mr. Clement, under the head of
RUDBECK, (Olaus,) the father,
was compofed by Mr. Charles Guftavus de Varmholtz, Aulic Counfellor of His Majefty
the King of Sweden, the greateft bibliographer that ever was in Sweden; _he died the
28th March 1785. It has never till now appeared in print; and the underfigned, who
is in pofleffion of the original memoir, has the honour to prefent this copy to Mefirs.
B..... and F....., on their travelsin the North, knowing them to be curious re-
fpecting rare editions. Stockholm, 18th June 1791.
_ (Signed.) CuarLes GjJ@RweELt, librarian to His Majefty.
N.B. It is plain that the article of Mr. de Bure, in his Bibliography, No. 5578, is
not correét, any more than that of Cailleau in his Bibliographical Dictionary, p. 522,
book ii. t ‘
Cuap. V.—Learned Men.—Artifts.—Cabinets of Individuals.
Mr. LUDEKE), paftor of the German chapel, is a very learned man; he refided a
length of time at Conftantinople, and has gathered fome valuable information refpecting
Turkey: he has publifhed feveral works in the Swedifh and German languages, and
poffefies fome valuable books. Orationes dominice, Orationes ferme centum: Berclino.
(Berlin.) Compofed and publifhed by the poffeffor’s great uncle. Biblia Malabarica,
‘Tranquebar :. the firft part 1723, the fecond 17273 the interior title is Biblia Damulica.
The New Teftament, printed alfo at Tranquebar in 1715, although of the fame fize as
the Bible, and in the Malabar language, the characters are of a larger type than thofe
of the Bible; the whole forms three volumes in 4to. The firft edition of the New
Teftament in the Finnifh tongue, in 4to. Stockholm, 1548. Bible Francaife, in falio;
Stockholm, 1642. A fine manufcript of the Alcoran on vellum, with the various read-
ings in the margin.
Mr. Swartz is the director of the King’s cabinet of natural hiftory at Drotningholm:
although very young, he has yet travelled a great deal, and has added confiderably to
the knowledge of mofles, which has been his principal {tudy ; he pofleffes the moft per-
fe& collection of them in exiftence: he has publifhed a work entitled, Nova genera et
{pecies Plantarum, feu prodromus defcriptionum Vegetabilium, in maximam partem in-
cognitorum, que fub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem, annis 1733—87, divenit Olaff
6 Swartz :
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
