(12-08-2016, 07:21 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a lone mineral-like object in the small-plants pages but as I've already mentioned on the blog, there's a distinct lack of non-plant medicinal ingredients in the VMS, ingredients that are found in many other herbals.
I agree, this an interesting point. Another possible exception is the frog or toad in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (but it's unlabeled, so it's not clear if it plays the same role as labeled plants).
According to Erwin Panofsky (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), the Voynich manuscript is probably the surviving one of two volumes: the plant and star half of the work which doubtless included also beasts and stones.
This seems rather speculative to me, but of course it is not impossible.