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Suppose the text uses "star" by reference to some of the cosmological sections? It doesn't have to actually be the word "star", it could be any combination of glyphs to mean star and thus wouldn't necessarily match glyph-by-glyph to other words on the same page.

Well, that would be fine for one folio, but that would not scale for the whole botanical section, I think. There are 100+ Voynich plants there, and there are simply not as many thematical sections in the VMS to be cross-referenced by plant names. If there is some inner  principle, then it would be applied as a system.

There might only be one or two plants in the whole collection that have the word "star" in their name and thus might not be sufficient to determine whether they map to the star pages in some way.


I'll confess something... I'm not entirely guessing about this... I've been looking for these kinds of correspondences for a while. FYI, quite a few of the old plant names are similar to the names of planets or stars, and there are quite a few relationships in the text between the plants and the zodiac-symbol section and cosmology pages. Whether they are names of the plants, or whether they indicate which planet influences that particular plant, I haven't been able to fully figure out yet.