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Just noticed in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., a 14th-century miscellany of alchemical works.

Oh! I know these... I was looking at an Albertus Magni book on Google Books and a subsquent search led me to this one.

I sampled the text about a year ago. On the previous folio there's a note that looks like it was added a decade or so after the original text (based on the handwriting) but it's impossible to tell if the drawings were added at the same time. Two of them have crosses on top. They look like test drawings for embellishments to historiated initials or something along those lines.

It's so typical that whenever there's something similar to the VMS it always seems to be shrouded in its own personal little mystery. I never had time to follow it up to see if the same style of decoration was used other places.