f67r1 and the supposed constellations

[Anton]

Just a stray thought. Why fish for months when there are 12? If the text of the large plants section is medical, and in any way follows the traditional four humors ideology, then it should should subscribe to the cross-pairing of pairs.

Traditional example in medieval medicine:
Temperature: hot or cold
Moisture: Wet or dry
Cross-paired pairs: hot & wet, hot & dry; cold & wet, cold & dry.

It needn't be a specific example, but as a general structure it would tend to indicate sense more than nonsense.
And it only takes four vords.

Yes, that's definitely another option for the search.

But this is generalized by that we impose a homogenous set of notions (Zodiac signs, elements, humours, whatever) upon another homogenous set (the plants), and by way of hypothesizing that there has to be some sort of mapping between the two we try to deduce the Voynichese rendering of the former set.

If we fail for Zodiac, nothing prevents us from trying humours. After all, if there is meaning at all in those scribbles, they must be about something (and most probably something practical).