Codicology - Vermont 'Tuscany Herbal'

[MarcoP]

I have just finished transcribing plant names in the Vermont Herbal.
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The manuscript contains more than 300 plant illustrations. I tried to identify the illustrated plants, and I think I could do so in about 60% of the cases. For another 20% of the plants, I provide a tentative identification marked with a question mark. I am neither a paleographer nor a botanist, so I honestly expect there are some errors in both the transcriptions and the identifications.

In the process, I noticed some features that might be of interest to Voynich researchers. It's possible that much of this is already known.

• You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. – the description of Aristolochia is followed by a partially encrypted sentence. This seems to be a later addition.
  
• You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - The text contains an incantation-like exorcism with cross signs (the page illustrates ginger “gjengjovo”). Of course, this could be of interest when compared with Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 
  
• Several pages contain color annotations. Possibly, the most Voynich-like is Herba Thora (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. bottom) in which the annotation “rosso” (red) appears several times on the stems, that were painted green all the same. Compare with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
  
• About half of the 98 canonical plants from the so-called “alchemical herbal” listed by Segre-Rutz are included in the manuscript (I attach a few comparisons with Bodley Canon.Misc.408, 1378, top row). 
  
• Many plant illustrations appear in two or three versions copied from different books (“alio modo in alio libro” - “in a different way in another book”). E.g. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. One can expect that the text is also derived from different works.
  
• Information from the tradition of astrological herbals is also included in this manuscript: several of the plants are associated with zodiac signs and a few with the planets. For instance, in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. asphodelus is associated with “Aries and Saturn” and stellaria with “Aries and Taurus”.
  

I haven't read the whole text yet, but I have noticed that different works and authors are mentioned, including the “Circa Instans” (i.e. Tractatus De Herbis), Albertus Magnus, Pliny.