# Which plants are drawn? · Voynich Manuscript

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# Which plants are drawn?

Asked 28 Oct 2026 by [**apollo** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)·Part of [What do the illustrations show?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGBCN851BR/what-do-the-illustrations-show)·0 answers·0·0 following

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## Next steps 4

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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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## History

1. Oct 2026[Session 5: raised the question](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/SES0D8B8QS022BX/session-5-re-analysis-from-the-transliteration-book-v1-0)

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[**What do the illustrations show?** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JGBCN851BR/what-do-the-illustrations-show)most likely each herbal page opens with its plant's name

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