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The Voynich Manuscript/F8r
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Description:
One plant with a single, big, odd-shaped leaf and a "collar"
around its stem, horizontally centered and spanning the page
vertically from edge to edge.
Three paragraphs (with 6.5, 3.6, 6.6 lines), left- and
right-justified and interrupted by the plant's stem, fill up the
bottom 3/4 of the page. Each paragraph is followed by a
right-justified two-word title.
Comments:
The plant is very strange, both for the leaf shape and for the
"collar" around the stem. Perhaps it is a mushroom (e.g. Amanita),
which the artist mistook for a plant and tried to draw as such?
The text format too is quite unusual, both in its length and in
the presence of titles.