[split] The Strange Thing on 116v

[VViews]

forcing you declare that the plants are imaginary.

I have never stated that the plants are imaginary, and I don't believe anyone on this forum has said that.

As far as European plant identifications go, there are several members who have made their own list of identifications, I suggest you go have a look at Ellie Velinska's blog, or JKP's blog, or MarcoP's blog, to name a few, they have all made parallels with plants either based on modern photos or on the way the plants were depicted in medieval European manuscripts. Even before this forum existed, dozens of ID's were proposed on the mailing list.
There are also forum members who believe that the plants are not European, but Asian or Middle Eastern and they all have made dozens of identifications too.
In fact, I would say that imaginary plants is perhaps the option that has received the least attention here. 
It is a shame that you throw around statements about other peoples' conclusions without having even bothered to look at the work that they have put in.

As for the Yale scans, they are completely standard for digitized manuscripts, both in resolution and in presentation, as you can verify if you go and look at any of the thousands of manuscripts that are available online, at Beinecke or at any other libraries.