Florilegium
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Florilegium (plural Florilegia) is a Latin word for a collection of 'flowers' (excellent excerpts), from the corpus of a considerably larger oeuvre. It was adapted from the Greek anthologia or anthology, with the same etymological meaning.
The word applies especially to:
- a classical music ensemble Florilegium
- a patristic anthology in Christian literature
- the title of various literary anthologies, e.g. by Johannes Stobaeus
- the title of certain collections of musical compositions, e.g. by Georg Muffat