Transcript of Linnaeus's Life made by J. Lindvall and other amanuenses, with corrections by Linnæus, to ca. 1769.
Contents:
- f 1: Family tree of the Linnaeus family;
- f 2: Title page;
- f 3: summaries of letters from Linnaeus to Bishop Mennander (1762-1770);
- f 3v: note from Linnaeus to Mennander, dated 22 January 1770;
- f 4: Pasted printed copy of "Orbis eruditi judicium de Caroli Linnaei scriptis" (1741) - Soulsby no. 2577;
- f. 5: Chronology of Linnaeus's life with key dates up to 1769 (in Swedish);
- ff 6-37: narrative life of Linnaeus (paginated 1-63);
- f 38: 'Opera et dies' (paginated 65);
- ff 39-40: 'Editiones operum' (paginated 67-70);
- f 41: Extracts from Linnaeus's Liber amicorum? (paginated 71-72);
- ff 42-43: 'Linnaei Herbarium': list of botanists having donated specimens to Linnaeus's herbarium (paginated 73-76);
- f 44: List of travels undertaken by Linnaeus and his students; list of 'Discipuli' (paginated 77);
- f 45: 'Linnaeana methodo scripta'; 'Genera Linnaeana sartis principia asumsere';
- ff 47-50v: another draft of Linnaeus's life up to 1730 (in Latin).
- Printed copy of ode, "Till Herr Doctor Linnaeus, och jungfru Sara Lisa Moraea".

Delivered to Bishop Mennander in January 1770, for him to make a Latin translation for the French Académie Royale des Sciences, of which Linnaeus had been made a member. The Latin draft on ff 47-50v may be in Mennander's hand.

cf Soulsby 2640: 'The Swedish MSS. (...) was sent in 1770 by Linnaeus to Dr. C. F. Mennander, Archbishop of Uppsala, who commenced a translation into Latin. In 1779 Mr Fredenheim, son of the Archbishop, conveyed the Diary and other MSS. to Robert Gordon, of Cadiz, to be printed in England. Mr Gordon died soon after, and the MSS. were sold by his executors to J. Mawman, the publisher of the second edition of Pulteney's "The General View etc."