The herbal section of the Voynich Manuscript is the historical part.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

who actually wrote "ab ovo" ... It was Jorge Stolfi who used the expression first; I merely referred to his earlier post.

I am jumping into the middle of the conversation and sorry if I missed the joke or proper reference.  But just to clarify, the expression "ab ovo" is not mine.  It refers to the Roman poet Horatio praising Homer for not starting the story of the Trojan War "from the egg", namely from the birth of Helen out of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that resulted from, ahem, the interaction of Leda and Zeus materialized as a swan.

All the best, --stolfi