Edith Sherwood Ph.D.

The Voynich Botanical Plants

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Folio 48v. Celandine (Chelidonium majus). Bancker’s Herbal, quoting Galen, says that celandine is “good for sore eyes. It is good for the canker in a man’s mouth and for him that hath drunken venom. Also take selondyne (celandine) and draw out the juice thereof and meddle it with white wine and anoint the visage therewith and it shall do away with freckles of the visage.” (2) (B)

(2) Freeman, M., Herbs, for the Medieval Household, The Grete Herball
(B) Drawings that are similar to illustrations in other herbals