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Stefanaki, Anastasia
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Thurn, Nikolaus
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Porck, Henk
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Grimaldi, Ilaria Maria
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Pugliano, Valentina
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Kardinaal, Adriaan
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Salemink, Jochem
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Thijsse, Gerard
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Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine
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Kwakkel, Erik [u.v.m.]
dc.date.accessioned
2019-09-12T12:23:41Z
dc.date.available
2019-09-12T12:23:41Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25541
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25311
dc.description.abstract
We reveal the enigmatic origin of one of the earliest surviving botanical collections. The 16th-century Italian En Tibi herbarium is a large, luxurious book with c. 500 dried plants, made in the Renaissance scholarly circles that developed botany as a distinct discipline. Its Latin inscription, translated as “Here for you a smiling garden of everlasting flowers”, suggests that this herbarium was a gift for a patron of the emerging botanical science. We follow an integrative approach that includes a botanical similarity estimation of the En Tibi with contemporary herbaria (Aldrovandi, Cesalpino, “Cibo”, Merini, Estense) and analysis of the book’s watermark, paper, binding, handwriting, Latin inscription and the morphology and DNA of hairs mounted under specimens. Rejecting the previous origin hypothesis (Ferrara, 1542–1544), we show that the En Tibi was made in Bologna around 1558. We attribute the En Tibi herbarium to Francesco Petrollini, a neglected 16th-century botanist, to whom also belongs, as clarified herein, the controversial “Erbario Cibo” kept in Rome. The En Tibi was probably a work on commission for Petrollini, who provided the plant material for the book. Other people were apparently involved in the compilation and offering of this precious gift to a yet unknown person, possibly the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand I. The En Tibi herbarium is a Renaissance masterpiece of art and science, representing the quest for truth in herbal medicine and botany. Our multidisciplinary approach can serve as a guideline for deciphering other anonymous herbaria, kept safely “hidden” in treasure rooms of universities, libraries and museums.
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21 Seiten
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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En Tibi book herbarium
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botanical collection
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dried plants
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500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)
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800 Literatur::870 Lateinische, italische Literaturen::870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur
dc.title
Breaking the silence of the 500-year-old smiling garden of everlasting flowers: The En Tibi book herbarium
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Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
e0217779
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1371/journal.pone.0217779
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PLoS ONE
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
14
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217779
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
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Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
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WoS-Alert