Collectio mineralium : : the catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold's II mineralogical collection / / edited by Annarita Franza, Johannes Mattes, Giovanni Pratesi.

• Superior document: Cataloghi e collezioni
• TeilnehmendeR: Pratesi, Giovanni,; Mattes, Johannes,; Franza, Annarita,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cataloghi e collezioni.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 pages) :; illustrations

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 The volume, unpublished and preserved at the Historical Archives of the University of Firenze Museum System, dates to 1765 and describes 242 mineralogical specimens coming primarily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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix -- Alessandra Petrucci -- Mining, collecting, knowing: Habsburg state-building, resources, and -- geographies in the context of Archduke Leopold's mineralogical catalog 1 -- Collectio mineralium. Leopold's II mineralogical catalog between history, science and collecting 37 -- Beyond borders. The mineralogical collecting between the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Habsburg territories at the end of the 18th century 73 -- Collectio Mineralium German Transcription - English Translation 93 -- Endnotes 135 -- Index of names and places 155 -- Collectio Mineralium Anastatic reprint of the manuscript edition 159.