Florilegium Notebooks

For this line, I designed journals with a shared set of features that I wanted in my ideal writing notebooks and couldn’t find available in stores.

These square paperback journals open wide, staying open easily and offering ample room for jotting down thoughts, notes, ideas, incantations, scripts, gratitudes, stories, prayers, quotes, lists, and other things you want to remember or create.

These notebooks contain expansive upper margins — an unlined zone perfect for decorative titles and small illustrations — and page numbers, useful for creating your own table of contents in the front if you're making your own reference book. Some of them contain some blank pages for art journal spreads.

These journals also make excellent commonplace books; scroll down for a definition.

Cover Art

I designed the most beautiful notebooks I could imagine using AI art generation, my own art, and my favorite graphic design tools.

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Intrigued? Click any image on this page to visit the journal’s Amazon listing, where you can read more about the interior features of each journal. For distribution, I chose Amazon.com, in part for its environmentally friendly print-on-demand distribution service.

What is a commonplace book?

"Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are similar to scrapbooks filled with items of many kinds: sententiae (often with the compiler's responses), notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and recipes." - Wikipedia

Florilegium Meaning

A medieval Latin word, florilegium, according to Wikipedia, referred to "a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writings and is an offshoot of the commonplacing tradition. The word is from the Latin flos (flower) and legere (to gather): literally a gathering of flowers, or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. It was adapted from the Greek anthologia (ἀνθολογία) "anthology", with the same etymological meaning."

Gather your own bouquet of things worth writing down in a Florilegium Notebook.