The Vermont herbal seems to have been one of the first that was entirely digitised on the net. Or at least one of those with some similarity to the Voynich MS. I am fairly sure it was discussed on the mailing list before 2000, but I just quickly found this note from Dana Scott from 2002:
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My follow-up to that (linked) refers to an earlier mention. In the archive I find one from 1998, but again it says 'was mentioned before'.
Having seen many herbals, this one does not strike me as the 'most similar'. I'd be interested to hear the opinions of JKP and Marco on that.
The MS itself indicates that it has combined contributions from several books or MSs, and one of them clearly was an alchemical herbal, because several of the herbs are easily recognisable as such. I just point out herb #17 in the right centre of page 9, and herb #65 in the bottom right of page 51. In both cases there is a reference to an 'alio libro'.
There are many more, but they are scattered throughout and not in the usual order.
(Edit: page numbers are from my notes, I hope they are right).
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My follow-up to that (linked) refers to an earlier mention. In the archive I find one from 1998, but again it says 'was mentioned before'.
Having seen many herbals, this one does not strike me as the 'most similar'. I'd be interested to hear the opinions of JKP and Marco on that.
The MS itself indicates that it has combined contributions from several books or MSs, and one of them clearly was an alchemical herbal, because several of the herbs are easily recognisable as such. I just point out herb #17 in the right centre of page 9, and herb #65 in the bottom right of page 51. In both cases there is a reference to an 'alio libro'.
There are many more, but they are scattered throughout and not in the usual order.
(Edit: page numbers are from my notes, I hope they are right).