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The Codex canadensis and the writings of Louis Nicolas : The natural history of the New World = Histoire naturelle des Indes occidentales / edited and with an introduction by Francois-Marc Gagnon ; translation by Nancy Senior ; modernization by Real Ouellet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicolas, Louis, active 1667-1675.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
- McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Canada--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of North America.
- Natural history illustration--Canada--Early works to 1800.
- Natural history illustration.
- Natural history--Canada--Pre-Linnean works.
- Natural history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (572 p.)
- Other Title:
- Histoire naturelle des Indes occidentales
- Natural history of the New World
- Place of Publication:
- Tulsa, Okla. : Gilcrease Museum ; Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history that is as much artistic and fantastical as it is encyclopedic. Edited and introduced by François-Marc Gagnon, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas showcases an intriguing attempt to document the life of the new world - flora, fauna, and aboriginal. The book brings together for the first time the illustrated Codex Canadensis and The Natural History of the New World, following Gagnon's argument that both can be attributed to Louis Nicolas, a French Jesuit priest who travelled throughout Canada between 1664 and 1675. Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, originally written in classical French, has been put in modern French by Réal Ouellet and translated into English by Nancy Senior. The Natural History presents a pre-Linnaean botany and pre-Darwinian account of living things, including hundreds of species of plants and vivid descriptions of wildlife. It is thoroughly annotated, focusing on the contemporary identification of species, as the result of a pan-Canadian collaboration of experts in fields from linguistics to biology and botany. The Codex Canadensis, currently in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reproduced in full and provides both a fascinating visual account of wildlife as Nicolas saw it and a rare example of early Canadian art. Gagnon's introduction profiles Louis Nicolas and analyses connections between his work and European examples of natural illustration from the period. The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European and makes available fundamental documents in the history and visual culture of early North America.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""The Codex Canadensis and the Gilcrease Museum""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Louis Nicolas's Depiction of the New World in Figures and Text""; ""Plates of the Codex Canadensis""; ""Natural History of the New World""; ""Translator's Preface""; ""Natural History, or the faithful search for everything rare in the New Worldâ€? Translated by Nancy Senior""; ""Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales""; ""Modernisation du texte franÃais""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-535) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-3876-3
- 1-283-58384-4
- OCLC:
- 811411356
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