The volume collects 360 plates which are hand-painted in tempera, made in the early nineteenth century for the teaching of botany and then bound into a single volume of considerable size (each plate measuring approximately 52x37 cm).

A third of the plates is dedicated to the main topics of botany classes (description of cellular plants, branches, roots, leaves, flowers and fruits) and the presentation of the classification systems in use at that time (Linnaeus, Tournefort, Jussieu). Others illustrate individual species of plants grown in the Botanical Garden of Padua in the early nineteenth century.

Only two plates are signed, by Andreas Bozza and by Antonio Tintori, and a large group of about 200 plates (cc. 132-360) has been attributed to the botanical illustrator Baldassarre Cattrani.

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