Museum Gottwaldianum, Minera Auri (1714)

The article examines the gold collection (Minera Auri) of the Museum Gottwaldianum, which was the basis of the first academic mineralogical collection in Russia, the Mineral Cabinet of the Kunstkamera (1714-1836), now the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The article analyzes the subject and quantitative composition, descriptions of the morphology of natural gold samples, and geographical names in the sections of Minera Auri in the catalogues of the Gottwald Museum (1714) and the Mineral Cabinet of the Kunstkamera (1745).The article contains a translation from German and Latin into Russian of the section of the Gottwaldianum catalogue (1714) concerning gold, as well as a Russian-German-Latin index of gold deposits mentioned in the catalogue, alongside parallel names from the Kunstkamera's Mineral Catalogue (1745).Many of these deposits have disappeared or have been forgotten.