(23-06-2026, 10:47 AM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your assumption that it was all done in one go seems to me to be very wrong. It was written piece-by-piece.
I don't really have an opinion on this. However, the idea that a patron would finance a work over a long period of time that he can't even read seems very far-fetched to me. At the very least, you'd expect some explanations in plain text to keep him interested. But as it stands, it doesn't make any sense. There's simply no selling point.
The layout and structure of the VMS are largely comparable to those of other herbals, especially if one assumes it is a composite manuscript. This allows us to draw conclusions about the order in which it was written. I see no evidence of a “random jumble” (e.g., plants listed last).