Category Archives: Voynich plants

Alain Touwaide on the Voynich – a review by René Zandbergen

I am grateful to René Zandbergen, whose authoritative site on the Voynich manuscript can be found here, for contributing the following review: On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the acquisition by the Society of Jesus of Villa Mondragone, the Second University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ has published a new book about the Villa. …

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Herbal Research Seminar

I just thought I would advertise this event, as it is obvious interest to the Voynich. It is in London on 14th October (with apologies to those far away!) Seminar on Trade, Discovery and Influences in the History of Herbal Medicine Website: http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/14243 Note that the deadline for registration is very soon – 14th September at 9am …

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Voynich plant on f100r – broccoli?

Below is an email sent to me by Dr. Ramiro Gianinazzi, Switzerland. I thought it was interesting so he gave me permission to post it. It refers to this plant on f100r: https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f100r/0.355/0.558/4.00 Dr 웜즈 apk 다운로드. Ramiro Gianinazzi writes as follows: “In the folio 100 is illustrated a plant which looks like a vegetable of the “brassica …

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Voynich plant 33r

Can you help us to identify this interesting plant, with two heads in the roots, and also decode the name? See below a picture from a 15th century Italian manuscript which also has two heads in the roots Fall smell download. The manuscript is described here. A number of people have added suggestions on these pages bgmstorage. …

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Voynich plant 7r

Can you help us to identify this plant and also decode the name? [table id=21 /] Step 1: Look at the Voynich plant picture above 달래 된 장국 다운로드. Look also at the possible name of that plant from the same page. Step 2:  Look at some other expert suggestions, below, for what this plant might be …

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On factors distorting the plant images of the Voynich Manuscript

Contributed by Anonymous ‘Biologist, Finland’.  Many thanks to him for his insightful commentary and guidance. Aims and limitations This is an introductory text for people who aim to identify plant species illustrated in the Voynich Manuscript (VM, below). The author of the present text is a Finnish Biologist who has spent some spare time with …

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Italian herbal – Veneto 15th century

See other interesting manuscripts here. This  wonderful manuscript has 192 drawings of plants (Manuscript on paper Hatz of Iron download. Veneto? Italy, S. XV). It is described as follows: “This herbal was begun in the first half of the 15th century and continued for about half a century 저 하늘에도 슬픔이 다운로드. It presents an …

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Italian herbal manuscript – Vermont

I’ve started a new section on the website to list interesting mediaeval manuscripts Download the 2019 Calendar Excel. This fascinating manuscript at the University of Vermont was brought to my attention by David Wiffler on this website, who said: “There is a plant here:https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f33r/0.966/0.479/1.70 that has two human heads attached to the root system Gravity download. There …

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Voynich manuscript: the Mexican theory

A lot of people have recently asked me my opinion about the Voynich ‘New World’ theories, for example suggestions that it was written in Mexico in an Aztec language, because the plants look Mexican Regents. Such theories tend to date the production of the manuscript to the 1500’s, and explain the carbon dating (1400’s) by suggesting, for …

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Ricinus communis illustration

이현주 다운로드 See a full discussion of this plant and picture here 맥북 영화 다운로드.  Illumination, France, Robinet Testard (?), ca 1500. Illustration  of Palma Christ/Ricinus for Matthaeus Platearius, Le Livre des simples médecines. Fr movie…. F. v. VI, 1. fol. 154 v, St. Petersburg, National Library