Florilege, a name the Latins have given to what the Greeks call ἀνθολογία, anthology; viz. a collection of choice pieces, containing the finest and brightest things in their kind.

Florilege is also particularly used for a kind of breviary, in the Eastern church, compiled by Arcadius, for the convenience of the Greek priests and monks, who cannot carry with them, in their travels and pilgrimages, all the volumes wherein their office is dispersed. The florilegium contains the general rubrics, psalter, canticles, the horologium, and the office of the feriae, &c.