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Evidentiary scope
The entry documents hemp growing in fields (In agris) on Gotland and a plant pressed from it, with its Latin, Swedish and German names. Pettersson (1948) listed it among the book's certainly cultivated species. The medicinal passage beside it is, on Pettersson's account, translated from Simon Paulli's Danish herbal of 1648, so it says nothing about how hemp was used on Gotland, and the article does not draw on it. The specimen is a fragment of a flowering shoot, with no seed or root. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.
Pettersson's English summary describes the Gotland part of the book as the oldest collection of plants known from the island, and from Sweden as a whole apart from Scania. That is his assessment of the book, and it stays on this page, out of the article.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from the holder's large image (3959 × 3000 pixels).
- Left-hand page. 361. In agris. / Cannabis. / Hamp. / Hanff. (in German script), followed by a passage of several lines in Swedish and German, signed D. Simon Paulli.
- Right-hand page. 361. under the plant; an ink-drawn leaf outline above it.
The two readings disagree on the place named in the first line of the passage, so it is not stated. The words Flores sunt pallidi et polypetali stand to the right of the number 361 on the facing page; it is not clear whether they describe this plant or its neighbour, so the article does not quote them.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The entry gives only the habitat In agris, and the title of the book places its collection on Gotland. Pettersson puts Münchenberg at the vicarage in Vall parish, in the middle of the island, and his collecting in the western part of central Gotland, but no entry ties number 361 to a place there. Svanberg and Ståhlberg (2021, Journal of Ethnic Foods 8: 37) write that most of the book's plants were gathered in Hejde parish; they do not name this entry either. Gotland is the finest place named.
Editorial treatment
Title and number. The museum's catalogue gives 361, the running number in the book, as the collection number; the title takes it with the catalogue's year.
Date. The catalogue gives 1702. The book's title gives 1701 and 1702, and Pettersson notes Anno 1702 written at number 247, on page 36. Pettersson finds the plants entered to some extent in the order they were gathered, so the page keeps the catalogue's year.
Collector. The collector field keeps the catalogue's A. Münchenberg. The prose gives the full name and dates as Pettersson does: Antonius Christophori Münchenberg (1680–1743).
Image. The photograph shows the whole opening, as the museum published it. The plants numbered 357 to 361 share the right-hand page.
Source discrepancies
- GBIF's copy of the catalogue gives no collection number; the museum's own catalogue page gives 361.
- Svanberg and Ståhlberg (2021) date the herbarium to 1701 in their text and to 1701 and 1702 in a figure caption; the catalogue gives 1702.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 10 October 2026 (+07)