17-10-2026, 07:29 PM
The only color that is significant in the herbal section, in my opinion, is red. Red is freely available in Herbal A, but becomes very scarce in Herbal B. Q8 has no red.
Tracking the use of red will certainly be a piece of the puzzle for ordering the pages (in my opinion, the talk about much later painters, and thus irrelevant colors, is pure speculation).
That said, we also encountered some weird plant behavior in some of the 50's folios, which may also be transitional. For example, 55r has an attempt at red while it shouldn't, and 55v has the wrong shape for a B-folio.
Tracking the use of red will certainly be a piece of the puzzle for ordering the pages (in my opinion, the talk about much later painters, and thus irrelevant colors, is pure speculation).
That said, we also encountered some weird plant behavior in some of the 50's folios, which may also be transitional. For example, 55r has an attempt at red while it shouldn't, and 55v has the wrong shape for a B-folio.


![[+]](https://www.voynich.ninja/images/collapse_collapsed.png)