> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 575](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355662) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6628-1) LSID 6628-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36565554) QID Q36565554 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Morandi, Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) (*fl*. 1744), Italian medical botanist and artist at Milano. **Abbreviated name**: *Morandi* \[standard form in IPNI: *Morandi*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. An autograph manuscript and a number of original drawings are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. Further drawings are at [[Collection TO|TO]] and at the Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 511; BM 3: 1347; Dryander 3: 458; Herder p. 409; HU 522; Kew 4: 51; NI 1400; Plesch p. 340-341; PR 6415-6417 (ed. 1: 7135-7137); Rehder 5: 588; Saccardo 1: 113, 2: 75; Tucker 1: 497. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 56: 212-217. 1918 (on mss.). - Woodward, B. B., *in* G. Murray, Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 43. 1904. #### Eponymy The derivation of *Moranda* Scopoli (1777) is not given by the author. ### Publications ##### n.6290. Historia botanica practica **Title** *Historia botanica practica*, seu plantarum quae ad usam medicinae pertinent, nomenclatura, descriptio, et virtutes, cum ab antiquis, tum a recentibus celebrium auctorum scriptis desumptae, aeneis tabulis delineatae, atque ad vivum ex prototypo expressae, nec non in classes xxxv. distributae, ut facilius cujusque simplicis genus, ac species dignoscantur. Opus equitis Joannis Baptistae Morandi... Mediolani (ex typographia Petri Francisci Malatestae...) 1744. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. bot. pract.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1744 (pref. 5 kal. Oct 1744), frontisp., p. \[i-xii\], 1-32, 1-11, *pl. 1-8*, 13-26, *pl. 9-18*, 27-36, *pl. 19-22* etc. up to p. 164 and *pl. 68* (uncol. copp. auct.). Some plates are conjugate with text leaves; "the book would bear further investigation" (Collins, in Sotheby). *Copies*: FI, HU, NY. *Ed. 2*: 1761 "nihil mutata" (HA), but differs even so "in a few unimportant particulars" (Britten). It was reset throughout with minor typographical changes; p. \[i-x\], 1-32 \[24 in NY copy\], 1-162, \[163-164\], *pl. 1-68. Copies*: FI, NY, U. *Ref*.: Britten, J., J. Bot. 56: 212-217. 1918 (on mss.). - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 2: 194-195. 1975 (collation).