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[Koen G]

It's remarkable that the herbal manuscripts most closely resembling the VM in this layout tend to be ones that have text added in a later stage. It happened like that in the Juliana Anicia Codex. This layout was then preserved its copy, the Padua Dioscorides. In the Yale MS, the text hugging the plant is the French that was added later. So it might be that this type of text behavior was somewhat associated with a certain genre (glosses, notes, accumulated wisdom...).


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