LEADER 05189nam 22005655 450 001 9910349445003321 005 20230616120728.0 010 $a3-030-19377-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-19377-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000009185185 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-19377-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5893153 035 $a(PPN)258306785 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009185185 100 $a20190906d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFlora of the Voynich Codex $eAn Exploration of Aztec Plants /$fby Arthur O. Tucker, Jules Janick 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 353 p. 234 illus., 229 illus. in color.) 311 $a3-030-19376-4 327 $aPreface -- An Introduction to the Voynich Codex -- Aztec Botany, Agriculture, Trade, and Medicine -- Iconography and Phytomorphic Identification -- Phytomorph Identification in the Voynich Codex -- Aztec Plants in 16th Century New World and European Herbals -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index. 330 $aThe Voynich Codex is one the most fascinating and bizarre manuscripts in the world. The manuscript (potentially equivalent to 232 pages), or more properly a codex, consists of many foldout pages. It has been divided by previous researchers into sections known as Herbal/Botanical/Pharmacology; Balenological/Biological; Cosmology; one page known as The Rosette; and a final Recipe section. All the sections contain text in an unknown writing system, yet to be deciphered. Cryptological analyses by modern computer programs nevertheless have determined that the language is real and not a hoax, as has been suggested by some. Despite the fact that this codex is largely an herbal, the interpreters of this manuscript with two exceptions, have not been botanists. To this end, our recent research suggests that the Voynich is a 16th century codex associated with indigenous Indians of Nueva Espaņa educated in schools established by the Spanish. This is a breakthrough in Voynich studies. We are convinced that the Voynich codex is a document produced by Aztec descendants that has been unfiltered through Spanish editors. The flora of New Spain is vast, and the medicinal and culinary herbs used by the Aztecs were equally as copious. Even though it is our hypothesis that the Voynch Codex was written as a private herbal in 16th century New Spain, many of these herbs have relevance today because they or closely related species have been noted to be medicinal or have culinary value. The Voynich Codex has an estimated 359 illustration of plants (phytomorphs), 131 in the Herbal Section (large images) and 228 in the Pharmaceutical Section (small images of plant parts). In our book ?Unraveling of the Voynich Codex?, to be published by Springer this summer, Tucker and Janick have partially identified species in the Herbal Section. In this proposed work, all of the plants of the Herbal Section will be identified along with those plants of the Pharmacology Section where identification is feasible. Each plant identification will include subdivisions to include descriptors (formal botanical identification), names in English, Spanish, and Mesoamerican names where known, ecology and range, and properties (medicinal and culinary) of these and related species. Photographs of the phytomorphs and contemporary plants will be included. These identifications represent hard evidence that the Voynich Codex is a 16th Century Mexican manuscript. Exploring the herbs of the Aztecs through the Voynich Codex will be a seminal work for all Voynich researchers and also of interest to a wider audience in medicinal and culinary herbs, artists, and historians. In summary, our new book project Flora of the Voynich Codex will provide a photo-illustrated guide to complete the botanical evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most valuable historic texts of the 16th century. 606 $aPlant systematics 606 $aPlant taxonomy 606 $aHistory 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aPlant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L24051 606 $aPopular Science in History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q33030 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 615 0$aPlant systematics. 615 0$aPlant taxonomy. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 14$aPlant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. 615 24$aPopular Science in History. 615 24$aArchaeology. 676 $a578.012 676 $a578.09 676 $a615.32108997452 700 $aTucker$b Arthur O$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0995623 702 $aJanick$b Jules$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910349445003321 996 $aFlora of the Voynich Codex$92281440 997 $aUNINA