This is a very special bound volume, in which various dried plants are affixed on the right page and, on the left page, there is instead a hand-written text with the names of the different specimens and their properties, in particular medical-pharmaceutical ones.

The Herbarium, also called the "Pharmaceutical Herbarium," was created between 1727 and the years 1750-60 (probably around 1730) and is, in reality, anonymous: its attribution to Fra’ Giorgio of Venice is derived from a fragment of a letter from the friar found in the book, which led to the supposition that he may have been its author or one of its owners.

The work originally was to include a second volume, for which there are no traces, and was donated to the Library by G.B. De Toni in 1902.

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