The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Flora: The Erbario Miniato and other Drawings

By (author) Fabio Garbari By (author) Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi

Book cover: The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Extent: 664, 664 pages

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Subjects: Art & Art History, Earth & Life Sciences 

Series: Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History

Series volume number: 6

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2007)

ISBN: 9781905375189

Price: $119.00

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Over two hundred of the botanical drawings catalogued in these two volumes are found in the Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal that formed part of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and is now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Also catalogued are more than sixty drawings that originally formed a


These volumes catalogue more than 200 botanical drawings from the Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal made for Federico Cesi and acquired by Cassiano after Cesi’s death in 1630. Also included are a further sixty or so loose sheets that originally formed a companion volume, broken up in the eighteenth century, and botanical drawings commissioned by Cassiano and Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo. Most of the drawings depict the native flora of central Italy, but mycological specimens, rarities from across Europe and recently imported species such as the crown imperial, the tobacco plant, the tomato and the aubergine are also represented.

  • By (author) Fabio Garbari
  • By (author) Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi