Compound plants in the VMS ?

[RenegadeHealer]

This question is especially worth asking in light of Alain Touwaide's professional judgement that the VMs is not a typical medieval herbal, and quite possibly not an herbal at all.

Can you please say when and in which context Alain Touwaide made this statement ? I am honestly a bit surprised. After all, a considerable part of the illustrations in the VMS consists of plants. At least this part makes, from my point of view, strongly the impression of an herbal.

Source: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Touwaide, 2019). Excerpt, translated from the Italian by DeepL.com:

"In the Voynich I find a coherence, but above all an incoherence. The manuscript borrows some iconographic motifs, but assembles them in figures that are not realistic. So, there is a coherence from the point of view of iconographic language, but an incoherence in the assembly. And it is this aspect that makes me say that it was not a herbarium to be used in medical practice, but a creation, a caricature, an imitation, a game", explained Touwaide.

(emphasis mine)