[Essentials] List of relevant herbal manuscripts?

[ReneZ]

While it is not stated, I guess that this should really only concern illustrated herbals.

There are many hundreds, if one were to stop at, say, 1500. (That may still be a bit early for several reasons).

Apart from this date criterium, it seems hard to have any *a priori* reason to exclude particular manuscripts.
One could argue that books that predate the Voynich MS by more than 200 years could be left out of consideration, but I suspect not many people would want to do that, and in any case this eliminates only a relatively small fraction.

So, for lack of a good a priori exclusion criterium, it could be done based on some criterium after inspecting the book in question. This is also not easy, since this requires some expertise that may not be sufficiently present here. Many manuscripts are in any case not freely available on the net...


One could start by making lists based on available reference works.