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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17032246 |
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- <p>This paper proposes that the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) herbal section may contain <strong>glyph markers or patterns signaling plant toxicity</strong>.</p> <p>Preliminary observations:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Folios depicting plants likely to be poisonous (based on morphology comparisons) often contain <strong>special repeated glyphs</strong> not present in benign plant folios.</p> </li> <li> <p>These glyphs may function as <strong>warning markers</strong>, consistent with medieval traditions of marking dangerous remedies with signs, colors, or marginalia.</p> </li> <li> <p>In some cases, <strong>red pigment emphasis</strong> in roots and seeds appears in tandem with unusual glyph clusters, suggesting a visual-textual system for indicating danger.</p> </li> <li> <p>The consistent placement of these glyphs at the <strong>end of recipe lines</strong> parallels the way “contra-indications” or warnings were noted in medieval pharmacological texts.</p> </li> </ul> <p>If confirmed, these markers would represent a crucial semantic layer in the manuscript, showing that it encodes not only plant parts and recipes, but also <strong>safety information</strong>.</p> <h1> Keywords</h1> <p>Voynich Manuscript; Toxicity Indicators; Herbal Lexicon; Medieval Pharmacology; Recipe Encoding; Cryptology</p>