The Translation of The Voynich Manuscript: Folio 1r

[ReneZ]

samen (not Latin) /semen is daiin, according to The Translation of The Voynich Manuscript: Folio 1r page 16.

The author suggests that this word could well be frequent in a herbal manuscript, but this is entirely unlikely.

Thanks to Marco's transcription effort, we have the electronic text of an alchemical herbal, and if my counts are correct, the five most frequent words are:

et  (585)
de (186)
in (182)
ad (148)
accipe (140)

With the exception of the last one, these are the types of words that should be expected to be among the most frequent.
Also, neither 'semen'  nor 'samen' appear at all in this text.
There is just one: 'sementibus'.
I do not know if that is related to seeds in any way.