f18v...Dioscorides...something about those leaves

[Bernd]

Excellent finds!!
How likely is it that these images are analogues meaning they evolved independently from another? I find it quite likely that these plants in the Dioscorides and the VM are homologues meaning they were copied from the same source.
Note that while the plants do match well, the flowers do not.

I totally agree with Koen, there's a peculiar mixture of realistic and fantastic freats but this is found in other contemporary herbals a well - to the point of making the plant utterly unrecognizable. I am also convinced that many VM plants are composites of root-stem-flower copied from different sources or outright inventions of the author.

Also there is something odd about VM You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which has similarities to Dioscorides, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. The bulb tunic splits and crosses the lowest leaves of the plant. In the VM this is interpreted as strange appendages to the leaves themselves. What is  D You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. supposed to be? I read Eleborus but it doesn't look like a hellebore at all, not even remotely.

       

There are surprising matches of certain exotic features of VM plants in other herbals as well, I'll make an extra topic.