Plant #53 Herba Zinziana (gentiana lutea, according to Segre Rutz) in the so-called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. tradition has been represented both with a “hollow root” and a “flat-top root”.
Bodley Canon Misc. 408 is the most ancient exemplar or this tradition (1378). The root is vaguely of the “flat-top” kind, but it seems to me to be more nature-like than the Voynich flat-tops.
BNF Lat. 17848 dates to the second half of the XV Century. Here the root has become clearly “hollow”.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is dated 1550-1605 according to the Bologna University site. Aldrovandi's image is an excellent flat-top root, but unluckily we don't know if the cylindrical simplification was copied from an earlier source or independently introduced in this XVI Century copy.
Bodley Canon Misc. 408 is the most ancient exemplar or this tradition (1378). The root is vaguely of the “flat-top” kind, but it seems to me to be more nature-like than the Voynich flat-tops.
BNF Lat. 17848 dates to the second half of the XV Century. Here the root has become clearly “hollow”.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is dated 1550-1605 according to the Bologna University site. Aldrovandi's image is an excellent flat-top root, but unluckily we don't know if the cylindrical simplification was copied from an earlier source or independently introduced in this XVI Century copy.
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