29-03-2016, 05:12 PM
After your series of posts about mnemonics, I got increasingly uncertain about the labels in pharma section being plant names. The logic well may be that the plant names there are conveyed by means of mnemonics, while the labels convey something else, like modus operandi or associated objects. In an example that I provided in a parallel thread, "otol" is used at least three times as a label, each time for an object of a different nature.
An analysis that is worth performing though, is to check for pharma labels' appearance across the botanical section. As I briefly checked, not that all of pharma labels appear in the botanical section. If those were plant names, then we must admit that the author left some of plants strangely undescribed in the herbal portion of his opus.
One additionally complicating thing with pharma section is that in some places there are more labels than there are objects (e.g. f99v, third row of plants).
An analysis that is worth performing though, is to check for pharma labels' appearance across the botanical section. As I briefly checked, not that all of pharma labels appear in the botanical section. If those were plant names, then we must admit that the author left some of plants strangely undescribed in the herbal portion of his opus.
One additionally complicating thing with pharma section is that in some places there are more labels than there are objects (e.g. f99v, third row of plants).