[split] f35v parallels "oak and ivy"

[ReneZ]

As happens so often, Edith Sherwood independently noticed the similarity, in her case with the Sloane MS, while I saw it in the Paris BN manuscript.
The illustration has been copied into several other MSs. The one predating the Paris MS (namely Egerton 747) looks a bit  different:

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I think I found four cases of a twining plant in Morgan MS M 873. Their site is not up at the moment so I cannot provide a link to the MS now.

I am most eager to find digital images of MS Masson 116 (Paris, Bibliotheque de l'ecole des Beaux Arts) but these don't seem to exist yet.

We can't be sure by which particular MS the Voynich "artist" was inspired. It may very well have been lost. Most of them were in N.Italy at the time, but at least one copy: Munich CIM 79 (formerly UB 604) was written in Germany.

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This does not have edera nigra twining around an oak tree, but it just goes to show that the Tractatus de Herbis was not exclusively to be found in Italy.
(The tradition expanded quickly into France, but with quite a different style).