A recreation of the 16th Century En Tibi Herbarium. The original held over 400 preserved plant specimens and was created as a royal gift, possibly to Rudolph the II. The book was bound in goat leather colored with carmine and decorated with gold text and designs. The book bindings were olive and green silk. It would have been very expensive to create. It was, in fact, quite expensive to re-create even now. The paper, for example, is currently still used as botany paper. It is limited in supply, and quite expensive.

My recreation used as much of the same materials as possible. The book is rag linen paper bound in goat leather, with 14k gold leather paint. Modern stain was used instead or carmine. I used hide glue to mount *most* of my specimens, but changed later to a modern glue.

My version will hold approximately 200 specimens, about half of the original piece. One reason for this is the expense of the materials needed. The second is to account for the fact that many of the plant specimens in the original may be extinct, endangered, unavailable, poisonous etc. 200 will still give me plenty of pages to hunt for plants for a very, very long time.

Please click below to read my documentation, complete with my sources.