The Voynich Botanical Plants

Folio 57r. Lady’s Mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris). In the Middle Ages this plant was associated with the Virgin Mary; the scalloped leaves resembling the edge of her mantle. Nicholas Culpeper claimed that lady’s mantle is “very proper for inflamed wounds and to stay bleeding, vomiting, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls and ruptures. … Drink a decoction thereof and wash the wound therewith. It drieth up all humidity of the sores and abateth all inflammations thereof.” (4) (B)