> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 513](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120644) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/17315-1) LSID 17315-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333372) QID Q333372 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Clusius, Carolus \[Charles de l’Escluse\] (1526-1609), Dutch botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Clus.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Clus.*\] #### Herbarium and types Herbarium specimens documenting Clusius' descriptions, are extremely rare. The Bauhins ([[Collection BAS|BAS]]) received Clusius' material and so did Platter ([[Collection BE|BE]]) but in the absence of annotations the specimens are difficult to locate. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 241, 2(1): 441, 4: 692, 5(2): 104, 681, 12(2): 753; Barnhart 2: 357; BM 3: 1074-1075; DTS 1: 47-48; GR p. 707; Jackson p. 572 \[index\];JW 1:440-441, 2: 188, 3: 348,4: 381-382, 5: 237 (q.v. for many biogr. refs. and refs. to sources); Kanitz no. 11; Kew 1: 575; LS 5273-5276; NI 368-374, suppl. p. 216; NNBW 9: 150; PR 1755-1761, ed. 1, 2406-2413; Smit p. 898, 1043. - Treviranus, C. Clusii et C. Gesneri, Epistolae ineditae, Leipzig 1830. - Blum, Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Wiss. Abth. 1901: 5-6, 8. - Milner, Cat. Portr. Kew 27-28. 1906. - Hunger, Arch. Zeeuwsch Genootsch. Wet. 1925: 110-133 (letters to Cl.) - Hunger, Clusius tentoonstelling de Lakenhal, Leiden 1926, 70 p. - VandeVelde, Versl. Meded. Kon. Vlaamse Akad. Taal Letterk. 1927: 13-41. - Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse, 's-Gravenhage 1927-1943, 2 vols, (the main biography and bibl., portr., refs. to mss. etc.) - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 129-130. 1936. - Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykol. xviii. Jahrb. 254 \[ind.\]. 1936. - Wyngaert, De gulden Passer 25(1, 2): 34-51. 1947 (drawing). - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 759-784. 1964 (the main bibliography!) - Egle und Rosenstock, Gesch. Bot. Frankfurt 8. 1966. - Aumüller, Burgenländ. Heimatbl. 29(3): 98-107. 1967, 34(2): 66. 1972. - Stannard, Pharmacy in history 9(2): 67-68. 1967. - Raab, Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 46(2): 17-19. 1968. - Pilát, Česke Mykol. 23(4): 267-271. 1969 (on medal). - Schuster, Z. Pilzk. 35(3/4): 149-156. 1969 (mycol. activ. in Pannonia). - Aumüller, Burgenl. Heimatbl. 34(2): 66-72. 1972, Sonderheft Burgenl. Forsch. 5: 9-92. 1973 (bibl.) - Guglia, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 113: 121-128. 1973 (portr.) - Jovet and Mallet, *in* Gillespie, DSB 8: 120-121. 1973. - Hrabevec, Biologia, Bratislava 29(1): 87-91. 1974 (portr.) - Schuster, Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 52(4): 50-54. 1974. - Smit, Vakblad Biologen 54(4): 49-53. 1974. - Smit, History of the life sciences 898-899, 1043. 1974. - Mägdefrau, Jb. Ver. Schutz. Alpenpfl. 40: 6-9. 1975 (portr.) - Ubrizsy-Savoia, Mikol. Közlem. 1: 11-21. 1975. #### Note The main biography by Hunger, 's-Gravenhage 1927-1943, provides references to the earlier biographical literature on Clusius; see Lenger for a descriptive bibliography of Clusius' own works, and Aumüller for an updated bibliography on Clusius. #### Commemorative vol. Burgenländische Forschungen, Sonderheft 5. Eisenstadt 1973, 309p. (bibl., iconogr.). #### Eponymy *Clusia* Linnaeus (1753); *Clusianthemum* Vieillard (1865); *Clusiella* Planchon & Triana (1860). ### Publications ##### n.1145. Rariorum aliquot stirpium per hispanias observatarum historia **Title** *Rariorum aliquot stirpium per hispanias observatarum historia*, libris duobus expressa: ad Maximilianum II. Imperatorem. Antwerpen (Ex officina Christophori Plantini) 1576. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Rar. stirp. hispan. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: late Feb or Mar 1576 (colophon kalend. Mart. 1576), p. \[1\]-529, \[10, index\], \[2, censor, coloph.\]. *Copy*: U. – Contains 233 woodcuts of which 39 had previously been used by Dodoens for his *Purgantium historia* 1574 (NI). See Lenger (1964). *Ref*.: HE p. 18; HU 125; NI 370; PR 1756; IDC 750. - Christ, Oest. bot. Z. 62: 132-1355 189-194, 229-238, 271-275, 1912. - Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse 1: 133-136, 332-339. 1927. - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 759-760. 1964 (q.v. for full description). - Guinea, Simposio Fl. eur. Sevilla 303. 1969. ##### n.1146. Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam **Title** Caroli Clusii Atreb. *Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam*. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, quae a generose viro Francisco Drake equite angle, & his observatae sunt, qui eum in longa illa navigatione, qua proximis annis universum orbem circumiuit, comitati sunt: & quorundam peregrinorum fructuum quos Londini ab amicis accepit. Antwerpen (Ex officina Christophori Plantini) 1582. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Aliq. not. Garciae arom. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1582, p. \[1\]-43, \[44, colophon, Feb 1582\]. *Copy*: Rogers McVaugh. Contains e.g. material received in 1581 from Francis Drake. *Ref*.: Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 767. 1964 (extensive analysis). ##### n.1147. Rariorum aliquot stirpium, per Pannoniam, Austriam, & vicinas quasdam provincias observatarum historia **Title** Caroli Clusii atrebatis *Rariorum aliquot stirpium, per Pannoniam, Austriam, & vicinas quasdam provincias observatarum historia*, quatuor libris expressa... Antwerpen (Ex officina Christophori Plantini) 1583. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Rar. stirp. Pannon.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Michaelismesse 1583 (Frankfurt), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-766, \[15, index\]. *Facsimile ed*.: Graz (Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt) 1965. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: DTS 1347; HE p. 18; HU 144; NI 371; PR 1758. - Istvánffi, Caroli Clusii... Icones fungorum in Pannonis observatorum. Budapest 1898-1910. - Christ, Oest. bot. Z. 62: 330-334, 393-394, 426-430. 1912,63: 131-136, 159-167. 1913. - Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse 1: 155-160, 339-355. 1927, 2: 130. 1943. - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 767-769. 1964 (extensive analysis). - Stafleu, Taxon 16: 535-537. 1967. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 116. 1975 (has a final sign. Y 10). ##### n.1148. Stirpium nomenclator pannonicus **Title** *Stirpium nomenclator pannonicus*. Német-Hjvár. 1583 Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stirp. nomencl. pann.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: An appendix to no. 1147, reprinted without author's name by Plantijn in 1584. Only one copy of the original edition was known to be extant (Franciscan monastery, Német-Hjvár), but this was lost in 1945 (see Aumüller). *Facsimile* in Hunger 1: 419-434 and in facs. ed. 1965 of no. 1147. *Ed. 2*: Stirpium nomenclator pannonicus. Antwerpen (Ex officina Christophori Plantini) 1584. Oct., p. \[1-15\]. *Copy*: L (n.v.). *Ref*.: Aumüller nos. 17, 18; HU 149; PR sub 1758 \[both 1584 ed.\] Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse 1: 158-159, 419-430. 1927. - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 769. 1964. - Stafleu, Taxon 16: 535-537. 1967. ##### n.1149. Rariorum plantarum historia **Title** *Rariorum plantarum historia*. Antwerpen (Ex officina Plantiniana Apud Joannem Moretum) 1601. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Rar. pl. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1601, p. \[i-iv\], front. \[v-xiv\], 1-364, i-cccxlviij, \[1-12\]. *Copy*: U. – Contains the *Fungorum in Pannoniis observatorum brevis historia* which was based on a collection of coloured drawings made by Clusius and some friends during his Austrian period. This 'codex fungorum' is at the University Library of Leiden. A coloured facsimile edition of this work was published by Istvánffi in 1900, q.v. for further details; see also Hunger. *Ref*.: Aumüller no. 27; DTS 1: 47; HE p. 18; HU 180; NI 372; PR 1759; SA 2: 550; IDC 54. - Oudemans, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 2: 341-355. 1877. - Roze, Bull. Soc. mycol. France 15: 280-304. 1899, 16: 26-53. 1900 (binary nomenclature of the fungi). - Istvánffi de Csík-Madéfalva, Études et commentaires sur le code de l'Escluse augmentés de quelques notices biographiques. Budapest 1900. - Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse 1: 255-260, 378. 1927, 2: 284. 1943. - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 769-772 (extensive analysis). - Guinea, V Simposio Fl. eur., Sevilla 303-304. 1969. - Petkovšek, "Historia Fungorum" und Clusius Codex im Lichte neuere Untersuchungen. Schweiz. Z. Pilzkunde 46: 173-182. 1968. - Guédès, J. Bibl. nat. Hist. 6(3): 174-175. 1972. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 117. 1975. ##### n.1150. Exoticorum libri **Title** *Exoticorum libri* decerm: quibus animalium, plantarum, aromatum, aliorumque peregrinorum fructuum historiae describuntur; item Petri Bellonii Observationes, eodem Carolo Clusio interprete. Leiden (Ex officina Plantiniana Raphalengii) 1605. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Exot. libri*. **Notes** *Publ*.: "Michaelismesse" 1605. *Copy*: U. – Contains Clusius' translations of e.g. Monardes, Acosta and Belon. For full information see Stevenson (HU 182), Hunger and Lenger. The *Curae posteriores* were published in 1611. *Ref*.: Aumüller no. 29; BM 3: 1075; HE p. 18; HU 182; Langman p. 433; MW p. 81; NI 369; Plesch p. 302; PR 1760; SA 2: 550. - Hunger, Charles de l'Escluse 1: 281-298. 1927. - Lenger, Bibl. Belgica 3: 772-776. - Stafleu, Taxon 16: 141-142. 1967. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 119. 1975.