18th century manuscript mineral specimen labels at Teylers Museum

 
In their depot, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has then-thousands of mineral specimens that, in combination with thousands of handwritten mineral specimen labels, shed light on 18th century mineral collecting.
Teylers Museum has given us permission to reproduce their photos of some of those labels determined by Bert Sliggers.

More information about these labels and about the provenance of the mineralogical and paleontological collections of the Teylers Museum can be found in the thesis of Bert Sliggers "De verzamelwoede van Martinus van Marum (1750-1837) en de ouderdom van de aarde", Leiden, 2017 (in Dutch language only).

 
all photographs on this page © Teylers Museum Haarlem

Wouter van Doeveren (1730-1783)
Wouter van Doeveren (1730-1783)

Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780)
Hieronymus David Gaubius (1705-1780)

Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799)
Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799)

David Bernhard Rätzer
David Bernhard Rätzer

Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741 - 1819)
Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741 - 1819)

Johannes Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823)
Johannes Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823)

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Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740 - 1799)

top of the Mont Blanc
manuscript label by Martinus van Marum, accompanying the specimen of the top of the Mont Blanc as collected by de Saussure on August 3, 1787 and displayed in the central cupboard in the oval room at Teyler's Museum

collection Johannes le Francq Berkhey (1729-1812)
collection Johannes le Francq Berkhey (1729-1812)

Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739-1806)
Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739-1806)

Guillaume Antoine de Luc (1729-1812)
Guillaume Antoine de Luc (1729-1812)

Niels Hoffman Bang (1776-1855)
Niels Hoffman Bang (1776-1855)

Heinrich Emanuel Benisch
Heinrich Emanuel Benisch

Johannes Albertus Schlosser (1733-1769) collection Forster
Johannes Albertus Schlosser (1733-1769) collection Forster

Johann Leonhard Hoffmann (1710 - 1782)
Johann Leonhard Hoffmann (1710 - 1782)