06-07-2026, 10:58 AM
This manuscript reallly has a strong Voynich vibe!
If I got it correcltly the left page shows garlic (allium = knoblauch) and the labels seem to say "grün" (green) and "gelfau": maybe yellowish, modern standard German word is "gelblich" and Bavarian variant is "geiblat" according to Gemini.
It is too late to be a direct inspiration for VM but they may share the same ancestors.
Maybe the plants aren't the same (after all VM has imaginary plants, it's a mainstream view I guess) but some similarities like vertical "rot" text are striking.
If I got it correcltly the left page shows garlic (allium = knoblauch) and the labels seem to say "grün" (green) and "gelfau": maybe yellowish, modern standard German word is "gelblich" and Bavarian variant is "geiblat" according to Gemini.
It is too late to be a direct inspiration for VM but they may share the same ancestors.
Maybe the plants aren't the same (after all VM has imaginary plants, it's a mainstream view I guess) but some similarities like vertical "rot" text are striking.