The reproduction of roots as healing objects

[Jorge_Stolfi]

why shouldn't these images be depict parts of plants, when the vast majority of pages in the VMS are about plants?

Well, that page in particular is in a quire where most pages have drawings of stars, sun, moon, etc.

On the other hand, true, in the last four pages of that quire (that include f70r1) there are no stars; there is just a face on f70r2 that could be a flower nymph rather than the sun or moon.

But, on the third hand, those four pages have no clearly floral details, either...

You cannot assume that the colors are original. Without them, f70r1 looks a lot less like a flower.

In fact, I believe that the round thing that got painted blue was supposed to be convex, like a sphere, not concave, like a bowl; and each of the nine "petals" was meant to be an opening into that sphere, like a short and wide trumpet with frilled rim.

Besides, it seems weird to assign a label to each petal of a flower.  Or to each gap between two petals...

All the best, --stolfi