A collection of dried plants systematically arranged for study; a herbarium or botanical collection; also a book describing plants and herbs.
From Latin 'herba' (plant) + '-ary' (place or collection suffix). Medieval scholars created herbaries both as pressed plant collections and as written herbals for medicine and identification.
Medieval herbaries were like Pinterest boards made of actual plants—monks would press and arrange herbs with handwritten notes about their medicinal uses, creating both art and an early scientific reference system.
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