How could we approach the Pharma and Recipes?

[-JKP-]

I think the Number 1 priority for this section is to stop calling them recipes.

They could be recipes.
They could be proverbs.
They could be an annotated index (I have found examples in medieval texts).
They could be lists of good days and bad days for doing certain tasks or procedures.
They could be incantations.
They could be the properties of gemstones.

and many other things...

I don't know the best thing to call these sections, but I refer to them for my own use as "dense text" folios and "starred text" folios. There are probably better names, but "recipes" is not a good name. WAY too many assumptions built into it.