[Book] Prof. Eleonora Matarrese * Nymðe - The Unearthing

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All plants in all herbals are from the Mediterranean. However, in the VM probably for the first time there are varieties that only grow in the Alpine area (for example Eryngium alpinum). Also Mary D’Imperio in her 1976 paper affirmed that the VM plants are childish and probably not real… A botanist can identify plants, and as far as I know Baresch wasn’t a botanist…

Eleonora, It's curious that you mention the Germanic origin of some plants when there is serious evidence to the contrary. In his letter to Kircher in 1637, Georg Baresch says that the codex contains exotic plants that have not been seen in Germany. It is to be assumed that at the court of Emperor Rudolf II many botanical experts examined the Voynich.