Breaking the silence of the 500-year-old smiling garden of everlasting flowers: The En Tibi book herbarium

Autor: Adriaan Kardinaal, C.A. Chavannes-Mazel, Anastasia Stefanaki, Valentina Pugliano, Nikolaus Thurn, Henk Porck, Ilaria Maria Grimaldi, Gerard Thijsse, Jochem Salemink, Tinde van Andel, Erik Kwakkel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
European People
Medical Doctors
Molecular biology
Health Care Providers
Plant Science
Molecular biology assays and analysis techniques
01 natural sciences
Binding Analysis
Plant science
botanical collection
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)::580 Pflanzen (Botanik)
Medicine and Health Sciences
Ethnicities
Medical Personnel
Flowering Plants
media_common
Multidisciplinary
Nucleic acid analysis
biology
Plant Anatomy
Eukaryota
Art
Plants
En Tibi book herbarium
Italian People
Silence
Professions
Italy
Emperor
Medicine
DNA analysis
Treasure
Research Article
Herbal Medicine
media_common.quotation_subject
Science
Flowers
010603 evolutionary biology
Physicians
Paleobotany
Chemical Characterization
Books
Organisms
Botany
Biology and Life Sciences
Paleontology
The Renaissance
biology.organism_classification
Health Care
Research and analysis methods
Molecular biology techniques
Herbarium
People and Places
Earth Sciences
Population Groupings
800 Literatur::870 Lateinische
italische Literaturen::870 Italische Literaturen
Lateinische Literatur
Paleobiology
Gardens
Classics
dried plants
010606 plant biology & botany
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 6, p e0217779 (2019)
PLoS ONE, 14(6), e0217779
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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