What are labels?

[Mark Knowles]

Not exactly, but rather there may be none of those where we most expect to find them. For example, there may be no plant names in the Herbal folios, no Zodiac sign names in the cosmo diagrams, etc.

That is a bold theory. Are you implying a referencing/lookup/index system? This seems to be one approach to viewing labels as numbers used as references. Or are you saying the text on a page does not necessarily correspond to that page, but rather a different page in the manuscript? Such that the text and drawings are jumbled up.

I still have to view labels as exactly what one would expect i.e names and then I am left to explain why things are the way that they are, which leaves me with nulls and homophonic sequences, as in a verbose cipher, as my best guess.

There are also quite a few other reasons I suspect null words that I have discussed elsewhere.