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- The modern florilegium seeks to record plants in gardens of botanical and historic significance or creating collections which highlight the diversity of their respective countries’ flora or of those that are now rare and endangered.
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The Transylvania Florilegium Project (21st Century) The aim of this project is to make a permanent record of the diversity of the flora in the unchanged meadows of Transylvania around the area of HRH Prince of Wales’s Transylvanian Guesthouses in a Saxon village.
It is the first florilegium of the 21st Century to be developed in France. For seven years a group of European and American artists selected and painted the plants of the garden which are reproduced in this work.
Florilegium. In medieval Latin, a florilegium (plural florilegia) was a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work.
Florilegium was the title of a small book published in Antwerp, Northern Belgium, around 1590 by the engraver Adrian Collaert. The entire content of the book consisted of small engraved flower pictures.
What does Florilegium mean? We took the name Florilegium from the term used by German composer, Georg Muffat (1653-1704), in his treatise on the Art of String Playing (1695). This treatise discusses the difference, at that time, between the French and Italian styles of playing.
Historically, a florilegium (literally meaning a gathering of flowers) is a compilation of drawings and paintings which depict collections of rare and exotic species. During the 16th and 17th centuries when new plants were being introduced into Europe from the middle east, artists were often commissioned by wealthy patrons and landowners to ...
A patristic florilegium of a non-dogmatic kind is the collection of extracts made by St Basil of Caesarea. Latin florilegia were also well established from the 5th cent. Their material is patristic, supplemented by excerpts from Carolingian and later from 12th-cent. authors. The early Latin florilegia were dogmatic and ascetic.
