Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

It's a manuscript full of herbs. They comprise the majority of the folios. "Herbal" is easier to say than, "Manuscript with a lot of pictures of herbs".

Is it an herbal in the traditional sense? If most of the plants were included because they have medicinal value, yes, the sections with plants would be an herbal. If they are there for another reason, then it's still a book of herbs, but not the most common kind of medieval herbal.

If it were a book of plant husbandry, or culinary plants, it would still be an herbal. Technically trees are not herbs, but almost every medieval herb includes a few, so even traditional "herbals" are not quite herbals in the strictest sense.

I put the following query into my browser: How many of the Voynich plants have been identified? And I got the following response:

There are 126 drawings of plants in the Voynich Manuscript, the majority of a high enough standard to allow recognition of the plant even though the text is not readable. So far we have been able to assign names to about 124, or ~98% of the drawings.

It was also indicated that many of those 124 plants were found, of course, in Italy, so I imagine you and Koen must now be overjoyed.

For my part, however, I am not ready to concede. My esoteric sources are adamant in pointing to the Americas and, although written as works of fiction, they have not yet been proven wrong on anything.