Collection of materials for a work much more comprehensive than that published in 1736 or 1751; though the headings and the arrangement are much the same. Most of the materials seem to have been brought together about 1740, though there are later additions.
Contains bibliographical information arranged by a) class of authors (pp.1-8); b) chronological lists (pp. 9-12); c) tabular; d) geographical provenance; e) alphabetically; p. 33 ff. MS following layout of Bibl. bot.; pp. 199-202 list of authors arranged according to birth and death dates ('Biographia').
Detailed contents:
p. 13: p. 17: list of 16th-century botanists ('XVI')
p. 15: list of 17th-century botanists ('XVII')
p. 17: list of 18th-century botanists ('XVIII'), with years of their most important work, ends with 'Hasselquist 1750 Iter sanctus' but no date of death.
p. 21-26: list of botanists with their most important work, which does mention Hasselquist's death on 9 February 1752. This list was probably drawn up around 1756 as it includes later dates, the latest being Olof Celsius (died 24 June 1756) and Pehr Löfling (died 22 February 1756) (later insert).
p. 29: list of botanists and their works
p. 33: 'Patres'
p. 53: 'Ichnographi'
p. 61: 'Universales'
p. 71: 'Monographi'
p. 99: 'Curiosi'
p. 147: 'Oratores'
p. 151: 'Bellum systematicum'
p. 155: [Nomeclatores]
p. 159: [Anatomici]
p. 163: [Hortulani]
p. 191: 'Poetae'
p. 199: 'Biographia tempora indicans, quibus acciderunt Astra Botanices' (NB the difference from the 1736 heading) ends with O. Rudbeck, died in 1740, though others have been added later, down to 1758. Jussieu, Pontedera and Heister are the last mentioned.