> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 321](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120452) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1132-1) LSID 1132-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77266) QID Q77266 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Breyne, Jacob (1637-1697), Danzig merchant and naturalist (also: Breyn, Breynius). **Abbreviated name**: *Breyne* \[standard form in IPNI: *Breyne*\] #### Herbarium and types The only Breyne herbaria now known to exist are at [[Collection L|L]] and contain plants from the Danzig region (2 fasc., coll. ca 1659) and from Prussia and Danzig (dated 1673). The first Danzig herbarium is remarkable because precise localities are cited with, in some instances, even ecological data. A few Breyne plants are in the Petiver collections at [[Collection BM|BM]], in the Steward herbarium at [[Collection OXF|OXF]], and perhaps in Gotha. *Ref*.: IH 2: 96. - Ooststroom, Gedenkboek Valkenier Suringar 208-217. 1942. - Jansen en Wachter, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 53: 236. 1943. - Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 97. 1958. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxf. 138. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 3: 326; AG 1: 76; Barnhart 1: 249; BM 1: 234; Bossert p. 52; Bretschneider 26-27; GR p. 159; Jackson p. no, 439; JW 4: 379, 5: 236; Kew 1: 357; Langman p. 159; Plesch p. 156; PR 1136-1139. - Seyler, *in* Breyne J. P., Vita... in J. Breyne, Prodr. 1739, p. 5-14. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 175 \[index\]. 1800. - Anon., Dict. Sci. méd. Biogr. méd. 2: 528-529. 1820. - MacOwan, Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 4: xxxiii-xxxiv. 1887. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 120. 1903 (ref. to portr.) - Hulth, Bref- och Skr. Linné ser. 2. 1: 322-339. 1916. - Carstenn, Schr. Naturf. Ges. Danzig ser. 2. 18(2): 19-20. 1927. - Lakowitz, Ber. Versamml. Westpreuss. bot. Zool. Ver. Danzig 1930: 4. - Breyne, Phil. Trans, roy. Soc. 24: 2045-2055, 27: 447-459 (letters J. P. Breyne to Sloane). - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 83. 1936. - Carstenn, *in* Krollmann, Altpreuss. Biogr. 1: 83-84. 1941. - Raven, John Ray 488 \[index\]. 1950. - Nissen, Zool. Buckill. 64. 1966. - Herre, The genera of Mesembryanthemaceae 39-40. 1971 (portr.) #### General commentary E. F. Klinsmann, *Clavis breyniana*, Danzig 1855 \[Neueste Schr. naturf. Ges. Danzig 5 (1855)\]. #### Eponymy *Breynia*J. R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster (1776, *nom. cons.*; also dedicated to his son Johann Philipp Breyne, 1680-1764); *Breynia* Linnaeus (1753, *nom. rej.*); *Breyniopsis* Beille (1925). ### Publications ##### n.751. Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima **Title** *Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima*, cum figuris aeneis summo studio elaboratis. Danzig \[1674-\]1678. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Exot. pl. cent.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1674-1678, p. \[i-xxxvi\], 1-195, index \[196-204\], appendix \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxv, \[xxvi, err.\], engraved half title 1677 \[*Icones exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum*\], *pl. 1-101*, 9 text engravings, *pl. 92* folding, *pl. 101* a cancel. *Copies*: G, HU, MO. All signed by author on vignette t.p. – The appendix contains W. ten Rhyne's *De frutice thee*. *Ref*.: BM 1: 234; HU 532; Jackson p. 310; Kew 1: 357; Langman p. 159; MW p. 53; NI 232; Plesch p. 156; PR 1136. - Makowski, Z. westpreuss. Gesch. Ver. 52: 139. 1910. - Ooststroom, Gedenkboek Valkenier Suringar 208-217. 1942. - Jansen en Wachter, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 53: 236. 1943. - Tyrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 11-12.1963. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 66-67. 1975 (sold at *£* 600). ##### n.752. Prodromus fasciculi rariorum plantarum **Title** *Prodromus fasciculi rariorum plantarum*, anno m.dc.lxxix in hortis celeberrimis Hollandiae... observatarum. Danzig (author) 1680. Qu.; *Prodromus fasciculi rariorum plantarum secundus*, exhibens catalogum plantarum rariorum anno m.dc.lxxxiix in hortis celeberrimis Hollandiae observatarum... Danzig (author) 1689. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Prodr. rar. pl.*\[*sec*.\] **Notes** *Prodromus*: 1680, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-52, \[1\]-7, \[8\], *pl. 1-4. Copy*: G. *Prodromus... secundus*: 1689, p. \[i\], 1-108, *1 pl. Copies*: G, MO. *Ref*.: BM 1: 234; HE p. 15; Jackson p. 439; Kew 1: 357; MW p. 53; PR 1137, 1138; SA 2: 545. ##### n.753. Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum **Title** Jacobi Breynii, gedanensis, *Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum* primus et secundus, quondam separatim, nunc nova hac editione multum desiderata coniunctim editi, notulisque illustrati. Accedunt icones rariorum et exoticarum plantarum aeri incisae, fasciculo olim promisso destinatae: adiectis nominibus et succinctis descriptionibus. Quibus praemittemtuvita et effigies auctoris. Cura et studio Joannis Philippi Breynii, Jac. fil.... hujus ad calcem annectitur dissertatio botanico-medica, de radice Gin-Sen, seu nisi et herba Acmella cum additamentis. Danzig (J. P. Breyne) 1739. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Prodr. fasc. rar. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1739 (p. vi: 18 Feb 1739), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-32, (fasc. 2:), 33-108, (icones:) \[1\]-34, *pl. 1-30, portrait, plate A*, Breynia, (J. P. Breyne's Diss, de Radice Gin-Sen:) \[35\]-48, *1 pl*., (additamenta:) 49-54, \[1, dir. binder\], *1 pl. Copies*: G, M, NY, USDA. The Stiftung for Botanik copy had two leaves of Corrigenda & emendanda (not in copies seen). *Ref*.: BM 1: 234; GF p. 52; HE p. 15; Kew 1: 357; NI 233; Plesch p. 156; PR 1139; SA 2: 545. - Anon., GGA 1740(6): 46. 21 Jan 1740. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 68. 1975.