florilegium

Noun

florilegium (plural florilegia or florilegiums)

1. A collection of flowers.
   • Rich owners of private gardens commissioned large-format florilegiums to immortalize their personal taste and power of acquisition, and the drawn pages burned with the urgency and excitement of explaining every plant’s form, color, and beauty.2004, Sarah Simblet, “Plants and Gardens”, in Sketchbook for the Artist: An Innovative, Practical Approach to Drawing the World Around You, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., published 2005, →ISBN...
   • Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final...2006, Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry Martin, “The Garden and the Human Being”, in The Passionate Gardener, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 50–51
2. An anthology, particularly of excerpts from larger works.
3. A patristic anthology.