What's up with f49v?

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I'm still relatively new to Voynich studies (couple of months) so there are some peculiarities I still have to learn about. I noticed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. a row was added left of the text, and some (rather modern looking?) numbers. Is there a consensus about who did this or what it means?

I don't know what has been said about the numbers. To me, the ink looks similar but it's difficult to know if it's the same hand as the text. It may not be.

The shapes that are set apart from the main text in columns is a format that was very common in medieval manuscripts, enough so that you could call it a convention. Usually they represented the first letter of the first word in the line and the space was just there for formatting purposes, but sometimes the dangling character was a marker.

Why this convention was used on this particular plant page is a bit of a puzzler. The columnar format was usually used for lists and indexes rather than for prose. It might be an experiment, it might be a choice to represent information differently for this plant, or maybe it's an index or something other than a description of the plant.