154 LIBRARY 



for Dr. Sibthorp by his travelling companion and draughts- 

 man, the celebrated Ferdinand Bauer. 



Oxford is also indebted to Dr. Sibthorp for one of the only 

 two copies ever struck off from the plates engraved by order 

 of the Emperor from the celebrated MS. of Dioscorides, 

 with illuminated figures, preserved in the Imperial Library 

 at Vienna. The MS. is said to have been copied at the 

 expense of Juliana Anicia, daughter of the Emperor Flavins 

 Anicius Olyber, about the year 492. Our copy contains 

 410 figures of plants, to which Dr. Sibthorp has attached the 

 Greek names. A similar and still earlier MS. exists in the 

 Library at Naples. 



The books in the Sibthorpian Collection, which deal more 

 particularly with the agricultural side of science, were removed 

 to the School of Agriculture at St. John's College in 1907, 

 for the edification and enjoyment of our Sibthorpian Professor 

 of Rural Economy. 



Against the railing of the gallery are suspended portraits in 

 oils of Robert Morison, Dillenius, Linnaeus, Fairchild (from 

 the Ashmolean), Sibthorp, Daubeny, and another passing as 

 " Bobart," but not a bit like his description. An unknown 

 portrait against the west wall may be of Sherard. There are 

 also numerous engraved portraits of botanists and some views 

 of local interest. 



