An 18th century collection of glass jars containing parts or whole plant specimens, mostly with their seeds, is kept in the Liceo-Ginnasio “E.Q. Visconti” in Rome. Béguinot (1900) ascribed this collection to Liberato Sabbati (1714-1779), keeper of Rome’s Botanical Garden from 1749 to 1779. The present condition of what is left of the collection, reduced from several thousand pieces to 640, is fair. The didactic role of such an unusual plant collection, could have been, besides that of allowing a tridimensional sight of plants independently from their flowering and fruiting time, that of keeping a seed collection together with the plants that produced them.
La Spermatoteca di Liberato Sabbati / Millozza, Anna; Petrocchi, F.. - In: MUSEOLOGIA SCIENTIFICA. - ISSN 1123-265X. - STAMPA. - 14 (1) Suppl.:(1998), pp. 505-507.
La Spermatoteca di Liberato Sabbati.
MILLOZZA, Anna;
1998
Abstract
An 18th century collection of glass jars containing parts or whole plant specimens, mostly with their seeds, is kept in the Liceo-Ginnasio “E.Q. Visconti” in Rome. Béguinot (1900) ascribed this collection to Liberato Sabbati (1714-1779), keeper of Rome’s Botanical Garden from 1749 to 1779. The present condition of what is left of the collection, reduced from several thousand pieces to 640, is fair. The didactic role of such an unusual plant collection, could have been, besides that of allowing a tridimensional sight of plants independently from their flowering and fruiting time, that of keeping a seed collection together with the plants that produced them.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
