why the voynich ist celtic

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Do you think that the text describes the plant and the scriba drawn it according to the text? Or that the description was given apart (in another text or oraly)?  I think also that the plants were drawn from a text and that's why they look so weird

AFAIK the text in herbals generally does not describe the plants.  Thus, if the Author had only the text and the sketches in Pharma, he would have had no idea of what the rest of the plant looked like.

And, with maybe a few exceptions (such as the pansy on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the nymphaea on f2v), the Author almost certainly did not draw the plants from nature.

By the way, I suppose that Western herbals show the whole plant because doctors or patients were supposed to collect it themselves from the wild. But I suppose that in China herbal remedies are mostly bought from Apothecaries who get them cut and dried or pickled from distant placed through traders.  Thus I would expect that an illustrated herbal medicine handbook would show what the store-bought material looks like, not the whole plant.  Makes sense?

All the best, --stolfi