This work is the critical edition of the catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold’s II mineralogical collection. The volume, unpublished and preserved at the Historical Archives of the University of Firenze Museum System, dates to 1765 and describes 242 mineralogical specimens coming primarily from the current Slovak-Hungarian mining district. This edition gives the transcription of the German manuscript and its translation into English together with an organized system of notation to illustrate the complex history of the text, the characterization of the mineralogical species, and the geographical location of the mineral extraction sites. This work represents to date the only published catalog of a mineralogical collection belonging to a member of the Habsburg-Lorraine family.
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Book Title
Collectio Mineralium
Book Subtitle
The catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II’s mineralogical collection
Editors
Annarita Franza, Johannes Mattes, Giovanni Pratesi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
170
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-494-6
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-493-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-494-6
Series Title
Cataloghi e collezioni
Series ISSN
2704-5854
Series E-ISSN
2704-6044