Bertoliana ms 362, Vicenza, is well known to Voynich researchers for the German color annotations that look similar to annotations in the VMS. This parallel has been discussed by Rene Zandbergen and, more recently, Alain Touwaide.
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The XV Century Vicenza ms contains one of the earliest copies of the Alchemical Herbal, still in Latin (not the later Italian translation). I found in "Di Sana Pianta" (the catalog of a 1988 exhibition) the illustration of Zinciana / Gentiana. This image seems to me somehow intermediate between Canon.Misc.408 and the Aldrovandi ms: the top is clearly flat, but the root is more detailed than in Aldrovandi's copy. Also in this case, there are German color annotations ("grun" for green and "gel" for yellow).
The XV Century Vicenza ms contains one of the earliest copies of the Alchemical Herbal, still in Latin (not the later Italian translation). I found in "Di Sana Pianta" (the catalog of a 1988 exhibition) the illustration of Zinciana / Gentiana. This image seems to me somehow intermediate between Canon.Misc.408 and the Aldrovandi ms: the top is clearly flat, but the root is more detailed than in Aldrovandi's copy. Also in this case, there are German color annotations ("grun" for green and "gel" for yellow).
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