27-04-2017, 03:32 PM
I am still lost about “barthifos” (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. second plant of the left). In theory, the names in other languages should be helpful, but I am more familiar with Latin than the other sources mentioned here.
I guess the abbreviation at the end of the Hebrew name is something like a superscript “9” and should stand for -us: “landufius”?.
The Tartar “columbanos” / “columbanes” sounds very Latin to me: I think it either is not Tartar or was badly corrupted. Searcher's suggestion of Vervain is consistent with this name (taken as a Latin name) but not with the other data. As pointed out by Koen, the text says that the plant grows in India. It also says that the leaves look like hands. Likely this is an exotic plant, whose illustration was freely created on the basis of the text.
As a very tentative candidate, I would suggest “rabarbarus indicus”, i.e. rheum palmatum.
Pros:
I have no idea of what the center plant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (center) could be. The name “abremis” could suggest “artemisia”, but the plant doesn't look much like mugwort?
The plant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (“pentadactilus”?) that Koen has paralleled with Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is Ricinus Communis, one of the identifications that date back to Ethel Voynich (I attach the illustration from the Vienna Dioscorides for comparison). I also find the Cambridge illustration a particularly good match!
I guess the abbreviation at the end of the Hebrew name is something like a superscript “9” and should stand for -us: “landufius”?.
The Tartar “columbanos” / “columbanes” sounds very Latin to me: I think it either is not Tartar or was badly corrupted. Searcher's suggestion of Vervain is consistent with this name (taken as a Latin name) but not with the other data. As pointed out by Koen, the text says that the plant grows in India. It also says that the leaves look like hands. Likely this is an exotic plant, whose illustration was freely created on the basis of the text.
As a very tentative candidate, I would suggest “rabarbarus indicus”, i.e. rheum palmatum.
Pros:
- it came from India (at least, that's what Indicus implies)
- “rabarbarus” is vaguely reminiscent of “barthifos”
- “palmatum” etymologically means “hand-like”

I have no idea of what the center plant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (center) could be. The name “abremis” could suggest “artemisia”, but the plant doesn't look much like mugwort?
The plant in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (“pentadactilus”?) that Koen has paralleled with Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is Ricinus Communis, one of the identifications that date back to Ethel Voynich (I attach the illustration from the Vienna Dioscorides for comparison). I also find the Cambridge illustration a particularly good match!


![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)