Cribs in the Voynich MS

[ReneZ]

The medieval European understanding of the mansions of the moon names derive from the likely first translation into Spanish and Latin of the Arabic Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm as well as an insertion into Alfonso X's translation of the Ghayat of a discussion of talismans that include a name listing attributed to "Plinio."  These two listings are present in what is known as the Picatrix (an amagamation of a range of disclosures about similar subject matter, collected by Alfonso's translators but a big part is the Ghayat).

Very interesting Michelle.

Now I was curious about the reference to Pliny, as he wrote 1000 years before the Ghayat seems to have been composed.

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presents a translation of Picatrix referring to the second Pliny, which confused me at first, but probably just is an unnecessary translation of his 'family name'  Secundus. So it is Pliny the elder of course.
The list of names does not appear to be in book II