Which plants are drawn?
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Compile the published plant identifications into one table with the identifier, the confidence and the folio, and measure agreement between identifiers before any is used as an anchor. Session 13: DAT0DCSNRCSMD0B holds 112 folios from voynich.nu (ELV and Petersen kept apart; 67 folios with both, agreement 28/67 = 42 %) and 83 from the ZL3b headers; still to add Sherwood, Velinska, the pharmaceutical jars, and a period-name lexicon per plant (only 30 of 125 head words occur in the reference Latin at all).
~10 h
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Pictorial parallels: assemble digitised comparanda (Tractatus de herbis and Circa instans herbals, De balneis Puteolanis, regimen and calendar manuscripts) and compare motifs and layouts.
~12 h
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Text-image correspondence on the herbal pages: code plant features (root, leaf, flower types) and test whether page-first words (F-114) and topics follow them (Mantel test with planted control).
~35 h
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Independent botanical identifications of the herbal plants (literature compilation) as external anchors for the readings.
~10 h
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