Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli's commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations

doi:10.3366/anh.2020.0651

	Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli's commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations
	Wu Huiyi 2,3; Zheng Cheng 1
刊名	ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY
	2020-10-01
卷号	47 期号:2 页码:236-253
关键词	Chinese botany botanical illustration natural history drawings Jesuits in China Beijing Ming dynasty Pietro Andrea Mattioli Pedanius Dioscorides
ISSN号	0260-9541
DOI	10.3366/anh.2020.0651
通讯作者	Wu Huiyi(Huiyi.Wu@nri.cam.ac.uk)
英文摘要	The Beitang Collection, heritage of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit library in Beijing now housed in the National Library of China, contains an incomplete copy of Pietro Andrea Mattioli's commentary on an Italian edition of Pedanius Dioscorides's De materia medica (1568) bearing extensive annotations in Chinese. Two hundred odd plant and animal names in a northern Chinese patois were recorded alongside illustrations, creating a rare record of seventeenth-century Chinese folk knowledge and of Sino-Western interaction in the field of natural history. Based on close analysis of the annotations and other contemporary sources, we argue that the annotations were probably made in Beijing by one or more Chinese low-level literati and Jesuit missionaries during the first two decades of the seventeenth century. We also conclude that the annotations were most likely directed at a Chinese audience, to whom the Jesuits intended to illustrate European craftsmanship using Mattioli's images. This document probably constitutes the earliest known evidence of Jesuits' attempts at transmitting the art of European natural history drawings to China.
WOS研究方向	History & Philosophy of Science ; Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
出版者	EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000592604800002
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihns.ac.cn/handle/311051/7483]
专题	中国科学院自然科学史研究所
通讯作者	Wu Huiyi
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hist Nat Sci, 55 Zhongguancun East Rd, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Needham Res Inst, 8 Sylvester Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AF, England 3.Ecole Hautes Etud Sci Sociales, F-75006 Paris, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu Huiyi,Zheng Cheng. Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli's commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations[J]. ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY,2020,47(2):236-253.
APA	Wu Huiyi,&Zheng Cheng.(2020).Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli's commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations.ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY,47(2),236-253.
MLA	Wu Huiyi,et al."Transmission of Renaissance herbal images to China: the Beitang copy of Mattioli's commentaries on Dioscorides and its annotations".ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY 47.2(2020):236-253.