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[HermesRevived]

Someone has used that work to do to the plant realm what the Lapidary does to the mineral realm.

Are we to understand that the labels on the "astrological" pages are the names of the plants?

If the text is not linguistic, Ruby, then there are no names. Rather labels would be some form of astrological notation that indicates the qualities, attributes and powers, the properties, of the thing labelled. Thus a star, like Sirius, might be labelled 'Hot in the third degree, red in colour, cardinal in nature, of fire in two degrees and air in one, bringer of storms, like unto Mars, and so on, and these might vary according to stellar phases. All the same, plants must be connected to particular stars just as gemstones are in the Lapidary.

(I point out that the Canones of Ptolemy is in Greek and I suggest the alphanumeric Greek notation in that work provided the idea for the Voynich script and language. In that case, our author cannot be unfamiliar with Greek, and Greek may be the background language to the Voynich system of notation. The text, I argue, is best considered 'quasi-linguistic' for this reason. The notation is designed to be evocative of text. )