The "Recipe" section

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One thing that I don't think very likely is that the Recipe section has anything to do with recipes or that sort of stuff. The absence of illustrations (which is a sharp contrast to the main body of the VMS) and the complex (at least three-layer: paints, dots and tails) marker appearance of the stars suggest some sort of a reference-list.

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It was uncommon for medieval and renaissance pharmaceutical recipes to have illustrations. Many of them are text only. Occasionally there are manicles in the margins to call attention to a specific section or recipe, but most don't have images. The same is true of healing charms, which are often mixed in with pharmaceutical recipes. They rarely include illustrations.

When there are illustrations of the plants, they are often in a different section, a pictorial section, and include nothing more than the name of the plant. Even manuscripts that include information about the plant on the same page as the drawing often do not include the recipes for use in the same section. The drawing sometimes lists only common names for the plant and whether the plant is considered "hot" or "cold", how it is used (in general terms, e.g., "good for snake bite"), and where it originates. If they are present, the recipes (whether culinary or pharmaceutical) are often in another section.