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

Hortus Malabaricus and from Clusius, also 39 plates "Fructus et Flores
Indiae", cf. A. Schierbeek 1942: Over enkele tot heden onbekend gebleven
handschriften van Stephaan Blankaart, in: Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. LXXXVI, p.
3069-3075. AKL 1854, p. 159 (Ms in KB); 1846, I, p. 355; Scheffer 1939, p.
124; Lindeboom 1975, p. 12. Van der Aa II, p. 586-587; NNBW IV, col. 156-
157; JWP II, p. 185; III, p. 342; IV, p. 374; V, p. 234; Nagtglas I, p. 42;
Fokker & de Man 1901, p. 12; de la Rue 1734, p. 12, 19, 20, 567; van Kampen
1821-'26, II, p. 49; III, p. 139; Kobus & de Rivecourt 1886, I, p. 166; Beresteyn
1933, p. 56. W.M.C. Regt 1905: Het geslacht van Prof. Blancardus,
in: Navorscher LV, p. 96; Th.J. Meijer 1972: Album Promotorum Academiae Franekerensis
(1591-1811), p. 50; Vandevelde, in: Versl. en Meded. Kon. Vlaamsche
Akad. 1924, p. 453; 1925, p. 591, 677; Alle de Brieven ••• Leeuwenhoek
II, p. 436. F. Muller 1853, nr. 450, 451 (portr.); Van Sommeren 1888-1891,
nr. 479-484 (portr.); Zelandia illustrata I, p. 357 (Descr. of portr.); St.
Blancardus, ed.: Collectanea medico-physica I, 1680 (portr.).
149. BLANKAERT, Gerrit. Servant (Amanuensis) of the Theatrum Anatomicum at
Leiden in the years 1692-1710.
He composed the catalogue of the Leiden Anatomy, 1697: Catalogus Antiquarum
et Novarum Rerum Ex longe dissitis terrarum oris, quarum viscendarum copia
Lugduni in Batavis in Anatomia Publica, Quae curiosis Spectatoribus monstrantur
a Gerardo Blancken. Leiden, 1697, c£. N.B. Eales 1969: The Cole
Library, p. 197. University Library, Leiden, Arch. Curators inv. nrs. 379-
399; "Rekeningen" (bills) 1692-1710,
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150. BLAUW JAN= Jan Barentszn Westerhof - born Oldenburg (Germany); left
Amsterdam 1701 without drum or trumpet.
Under this name was known during the 18th century a menagerie in an inn "de
Hoop" at the Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam (now "Gebouw van de Werkende
Stand"). It had been founded before 1698 by Jan Barentsz Westerhof (q.v.)
and lasted till about 1784. Here, under different owners, all sorts of
living animals from foreign countries could be admired, together with misforrned
men and other curiosities, The library "Artis" contains a bound Ms.
by Jan Velten, of about 1700, with pictures of the animals shown here and
elsewhere. It mentions as the first owner Jan (Barentsz) Westerhof (or
Westerhoft) or Jan Blauw or Blauw Jan (for details of his life c£. Van
Eeghen 1962, p. 153, and for later owners esp. Evert Metz). A later occupant
was Anthony Bergmeijer or Bergmeier (q.v.), see Van Eeghen 1962, p. 157
(born 1706 or 1707 in Osnabruck) who furnished animals all over Europe (see
also "Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten", Kon. Oudheidk. Gen. in Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, porte£. XXVIII B nr. 255, where Bergmeijer advertises the arrival
of a young man without hands, also porte£. XXXIV, 2 March 1749 a young man
of about 70 em long, 24 years old). An old engraving of the menagerie by
Fritzsch in 1751 exists in two different editions (Witkamp 1875, p. 151-
156; Idem 1888; Loisel 1912; Kerbert 1906). In the Arch. Not. arch. 6528 nr.
410 an inventory is found made at the death of Evert Metz (q.v.), owner in
1727. An engraving by Moucheron, belonging to the collection Dreesman, has