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(08-05-2024, 07:50 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am not certain of anything here, so that's why I wrote likely.

I think that your arguments:

(08-05-2024, 07:04 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[*]The little crescent shapes in the plant float in the center, while those in the rosettes are connected to the inner rim.

[*]The rosettes has an extra pair of yellow "lips" between the small crescents and the petals. 

[*]In the plant, the petals are doubled, while in the rosettes, they are similar.

suggest to me that they are probably not 'the same thing'.
However, they are very much the same style.

Not having any art background, I would not know how to identify an artist hand with any kind of certainty.
f40v and f86 indeed do appear to be related, even if there is not an exact match; however, when analysed individually, I believe that they each represent separate entities.  The flower in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. resembles a cactus flower.

Saguaro Cactus Bloom:
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Cactus Flowers:
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Epiphyllum oxypetalum: (note central stigma)
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f86 is found on the 9-rosettes folio. In my opinion it reflects on the brightness of a New Heaven, Empyrean.

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On might say that there is a connection between the plants and flowers on earth with heavens of the angels and God.

Regards,
Dana Scott
f40v to me, seems like a variation of Apiaceae, something dill adjacentpiAp. While it doesn't look much like modern dill it looks like the arabic interpretation in a translation of materia medica: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The seed pod is also similar : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Modern dill doesn't have such bulbulus roots, but something tubular, however fennel and other relatives do have bulbous tap roots.
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