(24-09-2020, 10:32 AM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(3) Again one has to consider what different adjectives could be in practice given the very different drawings. I don't see how words like hot and cold, wet and dry could apply to multiple of the kind of drawings that we see in the Voynich in a meaningful way and verbs like grind, powder, mix, and soak even less so. Words like good and bad are so simple that they seem relatively useless in these contexts.
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There are numerous medieval plant books in which every single plant is identified as being wet or dry, hot or cold, and sometimes the degree to which this is true is also included. In others, the wet/dry/hot/cold descriptions are not mentioned for every plant, they are applied sporadically. wet/dry/hot/cold were sometimes applied to other things besides plants (one sometimes sees it in cosmology books, as well).
In medieval thinking, everything was thought to have more-or-less of each of these properties.
I don't remember mentioning anything about good and bad, but one also sees those in medieval manuscripts, as well, but usually not as labels, they are generally in the descriptive text or in columnar charts. "Good" and "bad" are especially common in books about astrology or astro-medicine.

