# An alchemical and distillation manual

> Still possible: The book is an alchemical and distillation manual: plants as materials, jars and tubes as apparatus, baths as operations, recipes as…

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# An alchemical and distillation manual

The book is an alchemical and distillation manual: plants as materials, jars and tubes as apparatus, baths as operations, recipes as procedures.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionGeneratedScreened0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[The illustrations form a medical and natural-philosophical compendium: herbal, zodiac…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDT8245K0/the-illustrations-form-a-medical-and-natural-philosophical)

Supported · weighs little · F-038

FOR

[Pharmaceutical labels occur in herbal running text no more often than other labels do (26…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDYMP3GWB/pharmaceutical-labels-occur-in-herbal-running-text-no-more)

Supported · weighs little · F-113

AGAINST

[Herbal pages open with a word found on no other page](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDYWG2XHY/herbal-pages-open-with-a-word-found-on-no-other-page)

Established · weighs little · F-114

NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

[Who would have made and used it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGC9YR02C0/who-would-have-made-and-used-it)

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