The Voynich Botanical Plants

Folio 11r. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Rosemary’s spiky, evergreen leaves have a pungent aromatic odor and are used to flavor a wide variety of Mediterranean foods. Banker’s Herbal states that putting “the flowers amoung your clothes will keep away moths … crush the flowers and bind them in a cloth under thy right arm and thou shall be light and merry … boil the leaves in white wine and wash thy face therewith … and thou shall have a fair face … put the leaves under thy bed’s head and thou shall be delivered of all evil dreams … Also make thee a box of the wood and smell to it and it shall preserve thy youth.” (2) (B)