11-09-2025, 12:14 AM
The quality of the VMs botanical illustrations runs the gamut from a few reasonable identifications of violets, waterlilies, costmary, etc., but the quality of identification goes rapidly downhill for much of the rest. Did they have waterlilies in Germany? Yet even for the best identifications there is little benefit. Is the plant name found in the text? Does the VMs text match that in some medieval, herbal manuscript? Not so far. The texts of the botanical pages are yet to reveal any information. The path of discovery lies elsewhere.