[Essentials] List of relevant herbal manuscripts?

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Also, I think René would agree that in particular Masson 116/Casanatense 459/Sloane 4016 include important parallels.

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I certainly agree.

Casanatense 459 also illustrates the compliication of defining 'relevant'.
It is very different from the Voynich MS, in that it was made for a king, by professional and expert scribes and artists, in a professional MS workshop. At the same time, it is very close in time, and (FWIW) it has one herb per page (mostly).

It was sent to King Wenceslaus, and in Germany a copy of it was made. This is now Munich cim 79, formerly UB 604.
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German herbals are relatively rare, and a relationship between the Voynich MS and Germany is given by the style of the zodiac illustrations, so I would consider all German herbals of interest (in principle).

I also consider the alchemical herbals very relevant. In fact the most interesting individual herbal MS for me is Florence MS 106, for several reasons which cannot really be used as 'categories'. For example, it has a cipher table on the first folio - highly unusual for herbals.
Marco already mentioned the Vicenza alchemical herbal - Italian and German, with the colour annotations.

Another point of JKP in another post is a very good one - the diagrams of relationships between herbals.
I don't think there are any in Collins, but there are two in Blunt & Raphael, which were taken from the work of Singer.
One can see some here:
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