Diary of Linnaeus's Lapland journey from 12 May to 10 October 1732.
Contents
f. 1: title page: <Caroli Linnaei | Iter Laponicum | Dei Gratia | institutum | 1732 | Sumptibus Regia societatis literaria & scientiarum | ad | Historiam naturalem Laponicae dilucidandam instructum | quod (?)| Lapides terras, aquas, Herbas, Arbores, gramina muscos | Quadrupedia, Aves, Pisces & insecta | inuo (?) | hominum morbor[um], Salutes, Diaetam, mores, vivendi[orum] va[ri]onem ( ?) | us?st? die 12 Maji ? ign die 10 October | Uppsala | O ENS ENTIUM miserere mei!!!>
Fol 1r: short note written in Swedish mentioning the society and Rudbeck's name. Also includes list of possible planned dissertations
Fol 5: table: calendar with several columns, indicating the stages of Linnaeus's travels, the state of the sky ('ventus/coel.'), and the precipitations ('Imbues').
Fol 7r: table entitled 'Societate Regia Literaria et Scientiarum mihi addicta fl 133 12/10 | ? quas per assignationem obtinui a Societatis secretario Prof: And Celsio | ad krar (?) [space] datum , quas accepi die 29 Apr'
Seemingly a list of account with his spending along his trip, in various columns, with various little sums on the side.
Fol 8: table of Linnaeus's itinerary with distances covered.
Fol 9-11: pages inserted by Smith to replace some pages he has taken out: 'Here I have taken out the sheet on which the Quarenda are written'
Fol.11: 'The Preference of Winter | White & Bright Snow ----- A moon | light night. Branches of Trees hanging | down forming Shelter for Birds and Animals | Travel over Mountains, Vallies, Seas | Marshes and the Alps, the Air not damp | but clear.'
Fol. 12: list of distance covered between places? First column of numbers, second seems to be place names.
Continues on first half on fol 12v
Second half contains another list or table, written perpendicularly
Fol 13: list of 'quarenda', searches
Fol 14 Full page of text entitled 'O ENS Entium Miserere mei!' Start of the travel descriptions.
Each observation is numbered; also the date is noted (generally just the number of the day).
Fol 26 List of local plants, with their indigenous names and their uses
Fol 28v: list of distances between various waterfalls
Fol 57: drawings of flower with numbers referring to list which starts on fol 27v ('Fiellen')
Two folios numbered 57.
Between fol. 62 and 63: map by O S Naucler (1660), "Geographisch Delineation öfver Then Landsort som ähr emellan Luleå Stadh och Silfverbärget Kietkeware i Luleå Lapmarck och Torpeniaur bÿÿ huar uppå wägen till land."
Fol. 84: 'Relation ? ? Kongl. ... uti Historia Naturali till Lappland mind ? expedition ?? af Carolo Linnaeo 1732 mensibus Majo, junio, julio, Augusto, Septembri och Octobri ingisunt mense Novembri ejusdem anni.'