> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 531](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120662) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1752-1) LSID 1752-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545017) QID Q545017 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Commelijn \[Commelin\], Jan (1629-1692), Netherlands druggist, merchant and botanist, uncle of Caspar Commelin. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Commelijn* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Commelijn*\] #### Herbarium and types Some specimens in the Sloane herbarium (now at [[Collection BM|BM]]) – Original drawings for *Horti medici Amstelodamensis* at [[Collection AMS|AMS]] \[[[Collection AMD|AMD]]?\]. *Ref*.: Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 116. 1958. #### Note on name Johannes Commelijn was baptized on 27 Jul 1629 in the pleterskerk at Leiden. The original spelling is Commelijn, spelled in capltals on the title-page of the Hesperides: Commelyn. The frequently used spelling Commelin contains a transcription of the Dutch ij by means of a single i. Johannes called himself Jan as well as Johannes in his later years. – The widely spread notion that Jan Commelijn was a professor at the Amsterdam Athenaeum is incorrect. #### Bibliography and biography Aa 3: 648; AG 2(2): 408; Barnhart 1: 370; BM 1: 370-371; HU 1: 597 \[index\]; Jackson p. 324, 439; JW 1: 441, 2: 188, 3: 348, 5: 237; Kew 1: 594; Langman p. 213; MW p. 83; NI 389-390; NNBW 10: 200; Plesch p. 180-181; PR 1829-1833. J., Biogr. méd. 3: 309-310. 1821. - Hunger, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 34: 187-202. 1924 (iconogr., portr., bibl.). #### Eponymy *Commelina* Linnaeus (1753, also dedicated to his nephew Caspar Commelijn (1667-1731), q.v.) ### Publications ##### n.1187. Horti medici amstelodamensis **Title** *Horti medici amstelodamensis* rariorum tam orientalis, quàm occidentalis Indiae aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum magno studio ac labore, sumptibus civitatis Amstelodamensis longâ annorum serie collectarum; descriptio et icones ad vivum aeri incisae... Opus posthumum. Latinate donatum, notisque & observationibus illustratum, à Frederico Ruyschio... & Francisco Kiggelario. Amsterdam 1697-1701. (P. & J. Blaeu, \[Wed.\] Abraham van Someren) 1697-1701, 2 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Horti med. amstelod.* **Notes** *Pars prima*: 1697-\[xxii\], 220 p., *110 pl*. (nos. *1-41, 42-44* \[on one plate\], *45-112*). *Copies*: HU, NY. *Pars altera*: 1701, auctore Caspare Commelino – \[xviii\], 224 p., ind. \[iv\], *113 pl*., (nos. *1-3, 4*(*1*), *4*(*2*), *5-112*). *Copies*: HU, NY. – Title: "... rariorum tam Africanarum, quàm utriusque Indiae,... plantarum... descriptio et icones... auctore Casparo Commelino... pars altera." – For a detailed bibliographical study see HU 399. Original paintings mainly by Johan Moninckx at AMD. The first 92 were made under the supervision of Jan Gommelijn. – Nissen mentions a total of 230 (114+ 116) plates, Dunthorne 244, GF 231. If the 2 engraved title-pages and the 5 plates (of which two of Huydecoper) representing coats of arms are included the Hunt total would be also 230; the number of botanical plates is 223 (222 lvs). – A later issue has errata on \*\*2v. *Ref*.: BM 1: 371; DU 81; GF p. 54; HU 399; Jackson p. 439; Kew 1: 595; Langman p. 213; MW p. 83; NI 389; Plesch p. 180; PR 1833, SA 2: 551. - Huth, Clavis commeliniana, Berlin 1894 (Samml. Naturw. Vortr. 4(6), Helios 12: 3-7, 18-21, 44, 60-63. 1895). - Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 19. 1963. - Wijnands, Taxon 22: 109-114. 1973. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 126-127. 1975. ##### n.1188. Catalogus plantarum horti medici amstelaedamensis **Title** Joannis Commelini *Catalogus plantarum horti medici amstelaedamensis*. Amsterdam (Apud Rodolfum & Gerhardum Westenios H. FF.) 1702. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. horti med. amstelaed.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: engr. t.p., \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-371, \[372, err.\] *Copy*: USDA. *Ed. 2*: Amsterdam (Westenios) 1702, n.v. (fide PR). *Ed. 3*: Caspari Commelin *Horti medici amstelaedamensis plantarum usualium catalogus*. Editio tertia & auctor. Amsterdam \[1724\], Oct., (p. viii: id. Martii 1724), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-107. *Copies*: U, USDA. *Ref*.: BM 1: 371; Kew 1: 595.