Thank you Diane and Rene.
I see that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. identifies the plant (Brusa) as "Butcher's broom". This seems a good explanation for the dots in Sloane 335 (Brussa).
The dots in the Voynich ms certainly deserve further investigation (as well as the red lines).
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From the two pages that can be seen online, this seems to me an interesting ms which does have something Vonynichish. The fact that roots are not represented is not Voynich-like, but it is peculiar. The style of the illustrations seems close to that of some copies of the Pseudo-Apuleius, but possibly these illustrations are independent. I think that most of these 12 plants could be easily identified and matched with other herbals.
It would be interesting to start a thread on the subject.
I see that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. identifies the plant (Brusa) as "Butcher's broom". This seems a good explanation for the dots in Sloane 335 (Brussa).
The dots in the Voynich ms certainly deserve further investigation (as well as the red lines).
(15-04-2016, 05:52 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm also not sure who first mentioned MS Sloane 335 in connection with the Voynich MS, but I remember when I first saw it, that it struck me as "very Voynich-like".
This was before I had started to look more intensively at medieval illustrated herbals, and now I no longer see it as Voynich-like. The similarity I felt at first sight was probably simply due to the fact that this is something from roughly the same time frame.
From the two pages that can be seen online, this seems to me an interesting ms which does have something Vonynichish. The fact that roots are not represented is not Voynich-like, but it is peculiar. The style of the illustrations seems close to that of some copies of the Pseudo-Apuleius, but possibly these illustrations are independent. I think that most of these 12 plants could be easily identified and matched with other herbals.
It would be interesting to start a thread on the subject.