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Roll, Timotiieus von 
Newes blumen-buclilein ... Durch einen liebhaber der gar- 
ten-recreation. Costantz, 1669; and rev. ed., 1687. 
Der Schweitzer!scbe botanicus, auss des seligen P. Timo- 
thaei a Roll Capuc. hinterlassenen garten-kiinsten ... Durch 
einen liebhaber der garten-recreation. [Zug? 1687] 
Very little information can be found about the reverend father 
Timotheus von Roll beyond that shown in the title of the 1687 edi¬ 
tion of his ’’Blumen-buchlein”, namely, that he was a Franciscan of 
the Capuchin order. His writings have not been found in the "Bib¬ 
liotheca scriptomim ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum” of 
Dionigi di Genova (Venetiis, 1747), or in other bibliographies of 
the monastic orders. It would appear that he was living in 1669, 
when the first edition of his "Blumen-buchlein” came out, but he 
must have died before 1687, inasmuch as the "Schweitzer!scher bo¬ 
tanicus" is said to be based on garden lore left by the deceased 
father Timotheus von Roll, 
The "Neues blumen-buchlin” of 1687 says that the work is to a 
great extent taken from Ferrari, "De florum culture" (1633), but, 
altho it quotes Ferrari directly in some cases, and covers many 
of the same flowers. Roll’s work seems to have been rearranged 
and rewritten to meet some particular need. 
It is probabljp that Haller’s citations, Bib. Bot. 1:546, of 
"Neues blumenbiichlein, A Grefflingero recusum", published "Fran- 
cofurti, 1684" and "Hannover, 1692", refer to some entirely dif¬ 
ferent work. On the other hand, it is probable that the "Blumen- 
biichlein" and "New-vermehrtes blumenbiichlein”, published Costantz, 
1691 and 1693, and credited to J. G. Spengler, may be related to 
the book of Timotheus von Roll. 
Emanuel Honig, in the preface of his "Georgica Helvetica curi- 
osa" (1706), says Roll’s "Schweitzerischer botanicus” was posthu¬ 
mously published by Pet, Steinkopff at Zug, in 1687, and a new is¬ 
sue of his "Blumen-biichlein” was published in that year at Schaff- 
hausen, by Heinrich Screta von Zavorziz, M.D., of that city. The 
fact of its publication at Schaffhausen is not confirmed by other 
authorities, altho it is rather plausible to suppose it was print¬ 
ed in the place where its editor lived, Kat, Landb. Bib. Efi^ben- 
havn (1921), p,870, does not even indicate the place, and Haller, 
Bib. Bot., 1:546, gives it as Zug, This may, however, have been 
due to confusion with "Der Schweitzerische botanicus”, issued the 
same year. The Dept. Agr. copy has a dedication on the verso of 
the title, signed "Hircanius Starke von Zartowiz”, after which is 
a MB note, "Anagram Hainricus Skreta von Zaworzit M.D. celeberr." 
