Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List Dutch Zoological Cabinets ... - DWC

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IV, p. 406 (Schwencke). Stoeder 1891: Gesch. der Pharmacie in Nederland, p.
250. H. Heine 1963: On the correct spelling of the generic name Schwenkia
.•• with a note about Martin Wilhelm Schwencke, in: Kew Bull. XVI (3), p.
465-469.
1389. SCHLJNVOET, Simon - 1652 1 s-Gravenhage - 24 Aug. 1727 Amsterdam. "Onderschout,
Hoofdprovoost, Geheimschrijver van het Aalmoezeniersweeshuis". He
lived at the Kerkstraat, between the Spiegelstraat and the Vijzelstraat, in
the house " 1 t Springend F'onteyn", He was a good engraver and garden-architeet.
He possessed rich collections of antiquities, coins and natural history. He
edited the "Rar:l.teitkamer" of Rumph ius 1705, obtaining animals from other
amateurs to complete the missing pictures. Uffenbach 1754, III, p. 668 (v.
1710); Pekarskij 1862 ( Schijnvoet 1 s museum was visited by Czar Peter, and
Schijnvoet had many connections vlith the Russian resident Christoffel van
Brants). His cabinet passed to his son-in-law Vincent Posthumus (q.v.), who
in 1744 offered it for sale in two catalogues, mentioning that it originally
came from his father-in-law Schijnvoet. The catalogue of shells is quoted by
Boehmer 1785, I, p. 394 and Vosmaer 1790; the one on fossils, stones and minerals
by Cobres 1782, I, p. 131. See also Murray 1904, I, p. 182; III, p.
16 7. The &ale catalogue of Schij nvoet 's books, 2 Febr. 1728, is in Boekh.
nr. 104; it contains no natural history objects. St. Blankaart 1688, in his
"Schouburg der rupsen ••• , preface, p. 11, 44; Valentijn 1726, III, p. 561,
563; 1754, p. 15, 26, 28, 45, 48, so, 51, 52, 58, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67'
68, 70; Argenville 1742, p. 215-216 (says that Schijnvoet possessed the collection
Rumphius, but later on he corrects this; Gersaint 1736, p. 40 made
the same mistake); Idem 1757, p. 147; Idem 1780, p. 18, 348-349; Lesser
1744, p. 34; 1756, p. 36, 80; Jaarboek Amstelodamum XXVI, 1929, p. 126, 137;
Engel 1937, p. 86; Lugt nr. 377; Jutting 1939, p. 202, 229, 235; van Seters
1958, p. 200 (note 32), 203, 204, 207, 218 (note 42); Dance 1966, p. 53, 81;
Ullmann 1974, I, pl. 17, 21, 22; II, pl. 88, 92, 93, 101, 102, 103, 104,
105, 111, 113, 120, 122, 123, 128; II, p. 102 (according to the editor,
Schijnvoet edited Rumph ius' "Rariteitkamer"); Thiel 1976, p. 723; W. Kuyper
1977: Schijnvoet's "nette schets" van Christoffel Beudeker's lustplaats Soelen
teruggevonden, in: Bull. Kon. Oudheidk. Bond LXXVI, p. 1-8, Van der Aa
XVII, p. 578- 579; Thieme-Beeker XXX, p. 392; Collot d'Escury 1844, VII, p.
200. Two letters of Schijnvoet in UBA.
1390. SCOTT, Jacob Elias - bapt. 4 Sept. 1669 Amsterdam - buried 12 Jan.
1750 Rhenen, died at Utrecht. Churchwarden of the Oosterkerk and the Westerkerk
at Amsterdam 1712-1748, later on he lived at Utrecht.
Possessed a cabinet of shells, Valentijn 1726, III, p. 561, 566; 1754, p.
19, 45, 50, 52, 56, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67; Uffenbach 1754, III, p. 690;
Kalff 1928, p. 207; Jutting 1939, p. 229, 239; LOwengren 1952, p. 311 (Queen
Louise Ulrike in 1751 payed 11,475 dlr. kmt. for her acquisitions from the
cabinet of Jacob Elias Scott at Utrecht), 319; Dance 1966, p. 77. Elias 1963
II, p. 702. W.R. Veder 1906: Register van namen van Kerkmeesters der gere-