19-06-2017, 09:30 PM
(19-06-2017, 10:30 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Visconti's had a great library (Visconti-Sforza library), which was open to visitors. Chaucer, for one, visited it.
There are several catalogues of this library, including one written in 1426.
The library was taken to Blois (France) by Louis XII, and later from there to the national library in Paris.
One of the books that almost certainly (*) appears in the above-mentioned 1426 catalogue is BN MS Lat 6823, also known as the Manfredus herbal.
Now *if* (and that's still a big if) the Voynich author/artist was inspired by the Manfredus herbal for his oak+ivy illustration, at least we know he would have seen it in the Visconti-Sforza library in Pavia.
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Note (*): to make it even more complicated, Toresella has some objections against the identification of the Manfredus herbal with the entry in the 1426 catalogue.
How about this one? 1395-1400. On Plants. World Digital Library.
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