[split] f35v parallels "oak and ivy"

[MarcoP]

Ahh right, I should have looked for the meaning of bacchas, thanks. I also found the "juice" parts rather unclear.
Some herbals seem to draw a snake next to the plant, would it be correct to read this as a generic marker of "used against poisonous bites"? Some kind of insect in this case.

Apparently the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a poisonous spider and in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. a spider is represented. One should check the text of the herbals in which a snake is represented and see if snakes are mentioned, but it could very well be as you say, a generic illustration of "poisonous bites".

What I find interesting to witness here first hand is how image and text seem to follow a separate line of development.

Here I don't follow you. I can see that image and text are complementary, since the text doesn't describe what the plant looks like. In general, it is true that the two evolved independently. If I remember correctly, the Tractatus De Herbis originally had no illustrations, but I think that this process of separate development can only be observed by comparing the evolution of text and images in several manuscript copies. I don't find this page particularly informative in this respect.

The fact that the VM does not draw the leaves of the vine but only of the host is something that remains hard to explain. If all associated remedies had been about the berries this would have been easy. But the leaves are such in important omission that we can't even tell whether this is ivy to begin with... Also within the plant corpus of the Voynich itself it's a strange thing that only the fruits of a plant are drawn.

I agree that this detail is very difficult to explain. My personal speculative opinion is that the ivy illustration was used to represent a different plant: the author was only familiar with its black berries and only illustrated the part he knew.