Primary Sources: Manuscripts, Drawings, and Paintings

OXFORD. BODLEIAN LIBRARY .

MSS. Ashmole 1816 and 1817A: Correspondence.

MSS. Lat. Misc. C. 11, D. 25, E. 28, and E. 31: Botanical notebooks based on Tournefort's Institutions .

MSS. Lister 2 and 3: Correspondence.

MSS. Radcliffe Trust C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 11: Correspondence.

MSS. Rawlinson C. 982 and D. 398: Correspondence.

MSS. Smith 11, 52, 130: Correspondence.

PARIS. ARCHIVES DE L'ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES.

Cartons 1666–1793, nos. 1–3: Papers and notebooks from 1666–1699, including Bourdelin's laboratory notebooks (cartons 1–2, 11 vols. organized chronologically) and  Dodart's  analyses, called abrégés, of Bourdelin's experiments (carton 3, 10 vols., organized topically or alphabetically and keyed by date to Bourdelin's notebooks; vol. 6 contains a key to chemical symbols and an assessment of the work: "Extrait des observations chymiques sur les plantes analysées selon la 2. maniere").

Carton 1667–1699: Pochettes de séances de 1667 à 1699, containing manuscripts of papers presented at meetings of the Academy, for example by Perrault and N. Marchant on botany, 1667, 1668, 1671; by La Hire, Sédileau, and Varignon on rainfall, 1692, 1693, 1694; by Morin on mineralogy, and Homberg on antimony and acid of sulphur, 1694; Dalesme on a bridge, 1695; Des Billettes on a canal lock, 1699.

Dossiers: "Bignon, l'abbé Jean Paul," "Couplet, Pierre," "Des Billettes, Gilles Filleau," " Dodart , Denis," "Gallois, Jean," "Jaugeon, Jacques," "Marchant, Nicolas," "Mariotte, Edme," "Morin de Toulon," "Perrault, Claude," "Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de," "Truchet, Sébastien."

Journal d'Angleterre. Translations into French of articles from Philosophical Transactions .

Registre des procès-verbaux des séances. Vols. 1–18 (1666–1699).

PARIS. ARCHIVES NATIONALES .

G⁷ 882–884: Trésor royal, feuilles mensuelles et états annuels des recettes et des dépenses, 1683–1685.

G⁷ 890: Calculs de recettes et dépenses. Consommation, 1689.

G⁷ 891–904: Trésor royal, feuilles mensuelles et états annuels des recettes et des dépenses, 1690–1699.

G⁷ 992: Pièces justificatives des états de distribution, 1690–1693.

G⁷ 1903: Mémoires de Desmaretz.

G⁷ 1905: Lettres, relations, plans de Paris, 1617–1743.

G⁷ 1906: Anciens inventaires du contrôleur général, n.d.

G⁷ 1907: Recueil par extraits des édits, arrêts … sur les affaires extraordinaires, 1689–1706 (lettres E, F, G).

M 802: Mémoire sur l'Imprimerie royale. États, règlements, arrêts et notes diverses concernant les libraires et imprimeurs. No. 1, "Mémoire historique sur l'Imprimerie royale (1789)."

M 803: Mémoires sur les principes de la navigation. Travaux du P. Truchet sur les voies navigables, les ponts et ouvrages à exécuter sur les différentes rivières, l'horlogerie, etc.

M 849: Papers of Truchet and Léonard. No. 3: Brouillons et desseins concernant un tableau de figures mouvantes que le P. Truchet fit pour le Roi, qui appelloit ce tableau, son "Petit Opera"; et dont il est parlé dans le Dictionnaire de Moréri, à l'article du P. Truchet. Another folder marked "Sciences" and called "Recueil de quelques memoires concernantes les nouvelles inventions dans les mechaniques, etc.," contains papers of père Léonard de Sainte-Catherine.

M 851: Papers of Gilles Filleau Des Billettes and Sébastien Truchet.

O¹ 656: Pensions de la maison cassette du Roi; no. 1: "Gratifications aux gens de lettres, 1687."

O¹ 883: Papiers du Grand écuyer. Personnels. Extraits mortuaires: pp. 206–7, Couplet de Tartreaux.

O¹ 1678 and 1678^A : Descriptions of royal property in Paris.

O¹ 1691: Observatoire de Paris.

O¹ 1934^B 14: Information about pensions paid to members of the Academies of Painting and Sculpture, of Architecture, and of Rome.

O¹ 2124, liasse 2: Papers relating to the Jardin royal, especially to its funding.

PARIS. ARCHIVES DE L'OBSERVATOIRE .

MS. B, 4, 9: Correspondence of Bonfa and Beauchamp to Cassini.

PARIS. BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL .

MS. 7464: Papers on the establishment and organization of the Academy.

MS. 4624: Regulations of the Academy of Sciences.

PARIS. BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE .

MSS. 10, 16, 17, 18: Botanical notebooks of Plumier and de Jussieu, based on Tournefort.

MS. 252: Correspondence of Tournefort.

MS. 253: Tournefort's notes, especially about his library and correspondents.

MS. 259: Tournefort's notes about Bourdelin's method of distilling plants: "Observations physiques sur l'analyse des corps et principalement sur celle des plantes."

MS. 447: Notes of Nicolas and Jean Marchant about botany and catalogues of their library.

MSS. 448–451: Notes by Nicolas Marchant, Jean Marchant, and Denis  Dodart  for the Academy's natural history of plants. Catalogued as work of the Marchants, but many notes from the 1670s and 1680s are in  Dodart's  hand, known from correspondence in BN MSS. fr. 17051: 181r–82v, 211r–12v; 17054: 422r–23v, and from the abrégés in AdS, Cartons 1666–1793, 3.

MS. 797: Catalogue of plants according to Tournefort's system of classification.

MS. 998: Correspondence of Tournefort.

MS. 1032: "Catalogues des plantes du Jardin du Roy, avec la Methode de M de Tournefort, ou ses Elemens de botanique … 1694."

MS. 1061: Caspar Bauhin's Pinax (1623), annotated by Nicolas and Jean Marchant.

MS. 1093: Vaillant's catalogue of plants, based on Tournefort.

MS. 1105: Notes of Tournefort.

MS. 1140: Antoine de Jussieu, "Reflexions sur quelques propositions."

MS. 1146: Botanical notebook of de Jussieu, based on Tournefort.

MS. 1278: "Remarques sur le projet de l'Histoire des plantes, dressé par M.  Dodart , de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et imprimé au Louvre, par M. Duclos, de la même Académie." This is Samuel Cottereau Duclos's private review of Denis  Dodart's  Mémoires des plantes, and it survives only in this copy made by Antoine de Jussieu.

MS. 1279: Guillaume Homberg, "Liste des plantes analysées au premier volume de l'Histoire des plantes."

MS. 1391: Correspondence of Tournefort.

MSS. 1556–1562: Catalogues of the Jardin royal by Jean Marchant and Tournefort, 1681–1699.

MS. 1989: Correspondence of Tournefort.

MS. 2253: Catalogue of the library of the Marchants.

MS. 2651: Antoine de Jussieu, "L'histoire et l'usage que l'on peut faire d'un histoire considerable de botanique, qui se met au nombre des volumes du Recueil d'Estampes du Cabinet du Roy," 1738 or 1739.

Rés.: Vélins du Roy .

Rés.: Recueil des plantes dessinées par ordre du Roy, by Nicolas Robert from his own miniatures, Louis Claude de Chastillon, and Abraham Bosse.

PARIS. BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE .

Archives de l'ancien régime 1, 2: Expenses of the Bibliothèque du roi, 1680s–1690s.

Archives de l'ancien régime 40: List made in 1727 of papers concerning the Bibliothèque du roi that had been in the possession of de Boze.

Archives de l'ancien régime 42: Papers about the seventeenth-century Bibliothèque du roi, with passing references to the Academy of Sciences.

Archives de l'ancien régime 50: Bibliothèque du roi, buildings, lodgings, finances, budgets.

Archives de l'ancien régime 53: Letters and documents related to acquisitions under the direction of Nicolas Clément (1682–1710). Includes "Mémoire touchant la bibliothèque envoyé à M. de C. le 30e juillet 1691," f. 8–11.

MS. Clairambault 566: Bignon's papers regarding the Academies. Fols. 251–52 have been published in Saunders, Decline and Reform, 256–59.

MS. Clairambault 814: États d'Officiers des Maisons des Rois Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV Contains papers about the history and expenses of the Académie des Sciences.

MS. fr. 1333: Samuel Cottereau Duclos, "Dissertations physiques … faites en l'an 1677," and "Remarques sur les Essais physiologiques de Boyle," July 1688, from f. 238. The former is the original version of Duclos's Dissertations physiques sur les principes des mixtes naturels, as submitted to the Academy in an application to publish the book; the negative report of four academicians — Blondel, Du Hamel, Perrault, and Mariotte — appears on fols. 42v–44r.

MS. fr. 7801: Papers of the surintendants des bâtiments du roi, 1667–1739.

MS. fr. 13070: Papers seized from the père Léonard relating to the Academies of Medicine and Sciences.

MS. fr. 15189: Copies of the correspondence of Huet.

MS. fr. 17050: Correspondence of Mme de Sablé and docteur Vallant, including letters to and from academicians.

MSS. fr. 17051–17052, 17054: Medical, pharmacological, and natural historical notes, mostly in the hand of docteur Vallant, including letters to and from academicians.

MS. fr. 19658: Correspondence of Mabillon, including letters of Thévenot.

MS. fr. 21773: Contains extracts from the "Voyage de Tournefort."

MS. fr. 22225: Bignon's papers concerning the Academies.

MS. n. a. fr. 1967: Correspondence of Samuel Cottereau Duclos and Paul Ferry.

MS. n. a. fr. 4732: Contains notes on the "Voyage de Tournefort" (Lyon, 1727).

MS. n. a. fr. 5133–5149: Notebooks from the Academy's chemical laboratory, kept by Claude Bourdelin, 1666–1699.