Meerman, Gerard (1722-1771); Dutch scholar and jurist; see Jos van Heel, Drie verzamelaars en een museum. Three Collectors and a Museum (The Hague, 1998); a manuscript catalogue of Meerman's library is in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Hague (MMW S 145 I–V, ex informatione Jos van Heel), and the items from Meerman's collection now in the Bodleian have been matched to this manuscript catalogue; the Bodleian Library's Meerman collection is made up of the Library's purchases (apparently made by Thomas Gaisford, one of the Curators) at the 1824 sale in The Hague of his books and those of Johan Meerman, his son; see Bibliotheca Meermanniana; sive Catalogus librorum impressorum et codicum manuscriptorum... quos... colligerunt... Gerardus et Joannes Meerman... quorum publica fiet auctio, 4 vols (The Hague, 8 June–4 July 1824); A Catalogue of Books purchased for the Bodleian Library at the Sale of M. Meerman at the Hague, June 8-July 4 1824, With a Statement of the Expenses Attending the Purchase; Macray 314-15; other books with Meerman provenances are also in the Library. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1722 to 1771. Period: 18th century.

24 entries:

• A-044(1) Aesopus — Fabulae [Greek and Latin]. — Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 1497. 4°.
• A-221(1) Alphonsus X, Rex Castellae — Tabulae Astronomicae. — Venice: Johannes Hamman, 31 Oct. 1492. 4°.
• A-299(1) Annius, Johannes — Auctores vetustissimi (comm. Johannes Annius). — Rome: Eucharius Silber, 10 July 1498, 3 Aug. 1498. Folio.
• B-220(2) Beroaldus, Philippus — Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Dec. 1497. 4°.
• B-222(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1499. 4°.
• B-225(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — De felicitate. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 Apr. 1499. 4°.
• B-226(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — Heptalogos. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 18 Dec. 1498. 4°.
• B-227(1) Beroaldus, Philippus — Oratio proverbiorum. — Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 17 Dec. 1499. 4°.
• C-260(1) Cicero, Marcus Tullius — Epistolae ad familiares (ed. Johannes Andreas de Bussis). — Foligno: Johann Neumeister and Aemilianus de Orfinis, [c.1471]. Folio and 4°.
• J-304(2) Juvenalis, Decimus Junius — Satyrae (comm. Domitius Calderinus). — Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 24 Apr. 1475. 4°.
• M-031(1) Maius, Junianus — De priscorum proprietate verborum. — Treviso: Bernardus de Colonia, 1477. Folio.
• M-068(1) (Johan Meerman only) Manilius, Marcus — Astronomicon (ed. Stephanus Dulcinius). — Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 9 Nov. 1489. Folio.
• P-023(1) Papias — Elementarium. — Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 17 Mar. 1491. Folio.
• P-110(1) Perottus, Nicolaus — Rudimenta grammatices. — Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 19 Mar. 1473. Folio.
• P-436(1) (Johan Meerman only) Pontanus, Johannes Jovianus — Dialogi qui Charon et Antonius inscribuntur. — [Naples]: Mathias Moravus, 31 Jan. 1491. 4°.
• P-437(1) (Johann Meerman only) Pontanus, Johannes Jovianus — De fortitudine, et al. — Naples: Mathias Moravus, 15 Sept. 1490. 4°.
• P-438(1) (Johann Meerman only) Pontanus, Johannes Jovianus — De oboedientia. — Naples: Mathias Moravus, 25 Oct. 1490. 4°.
• P-526(1) Ptolemaeus Alexandrinus, Claudius — Geographia (trans. Jacobus Angeli, ed. Angelus Vadius and Barnabas Picardus Vicentinus). — Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 13 Sept. 1475. Folio.
• P-543(1) Purbachius, Georgius — Theoricae novae planetarum. — [Nuremberg: Johann Müller of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), c.1474]. Folio.
• R-038(1) Regiomontanus, Johannes — Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta. — [Nuremberg: Johann Müller, of Königsberg (Regiomontanus), c.1475.] Folio.
• S-025(1) Sallustius Crispus, Gaius — Opera: Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Iugurthinum, et al. (ed. Philippus Beroaldus). — Paris: Ulrich Gering, [1483?]. 4°.
• S-187(1) Servius Honoratus, Maurus — Commentarii in Vergilii opera. — [Strasbourg: The R‑Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1471]. Folio.
• T-221(1) Tortellius, Johannes — De orthographia. — Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1471. Folio.
• V-004(1) Valerius Flaccus, Gaius — Argonautica. — Florence: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, [c.1481.] 4°.

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