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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Perhaps to understand each other we should start with the basics. The manuscript contains a herbal, but it's not a conventional one. We can't identify the plants with certainty, and there's no text in Latin or any other known language that tells us about the properties and characteristics of those herbs.

  This unusual herbal is bound in a book to a set of folios with cosmological, astrological and zodiacal drawings with female figures that we also see in another section with tubes. In the same book we see another section with roots and leaves next to luxurious containers, roots and leaves that sometimes replicate the plants in the herbal.

  There's a theory that all of this was bound together without any connection between the parts. The fact that the entire book has the same undecipherable script is merely circumstantial. Is this possible? Yes, it is. Is it probable? No, it's highly unlikely. 

  History has bequeathed this book to us as a whole, in a single piece. It is a fact that its authors intended to transmit it to us in this way, regardless of the various bindings it has undergone. The fact that we have not found that peculiar script anywhere else is the greatest proof that it was conceived for the entire book as a unit.