f99v Confirmation Manuscript

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Just a quick note to post about an important confirmation of
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While few believed that this was reality let alone any of 

the speculations about such a mystery, many did hold judgment

until some additional outside confirmations were made.

Mycologists seemed in agreement because so many markings matched up

to only this mushroom.  But what about other Manuscripts?

Well that has been a long standing Voynich problem

Today the British Museum posted on a small mystery page that

has close similarities to the Voynich and also shows the white mushroom

in a Hugelkultur Garden.  I find this quite incredible !


First  lets go to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. painting

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then wiki info and photo

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British Museum Post

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Hugelkultur  images    a long pile of wood with mounding of earth & composting

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Mushroom paintings from middle ages are quite rare

they burned them all,  and continued burning into new world as well

Its amazing we have any imagery at all of this important discovery


Sincerely

SMD Research Team

I can't remember if it's Sloane 4016 or one that's similar, but it has brown mushrooms paired with Fagiola.

Hortus Sanitatus simply calls it "fungus".



As for identifying it, if the VMS drawing is a mushroom...

It reminds me of chantarelles (in shape if not in color) but especially resembles the bluish mushrooms in Flora Batavia (1783), including a species of agaricus. Agaricus tends to be whitish or brownish, but it's interesting that it was drawn with a bluish-purple color.

Lactarius indigo has a distinctly blue color and Clitocybe nuda has a bluish-purple foot, but if I remember correctly, both are North American (I think Lactarius may also be native to east Asia).

Clitocybe nuda has a blue foot and is similar in shape to the VMS drawing when it ripens.
Laccaria amethystina is temperate circumboreal and resembles the VMS drawing quite well as it ripens.

There are quite a few possibilities, but I would need to look up the names... the ones I've listed are only those I can recall off the top of my head.


What I find interesting about mushrooms/fungi/lichens is that general-purpose herbals usually show only one (or one mushroom and one lichen) even though many were used medicinally (or for magical purposes). Perhaps it's because they are so diverse... maybe medievalists felt mushrooms to be a topic on their own... there were certainly many mushroom-specific books from about the 17th century onward.