The Manuscript of Roger Bacon

Johannes Kirschher was an avid collector of old manuscripts and other exotic items. His library passed into the hands of the Jesuit order, which kept it for many centuries. Wilfred Voynich hoped to use the illustrations as a sort of a rosetta stone, comparing the labels to the plants and constellations known Latin names. But the constellations bore no resemblance to the ones we are familiar with,. The herbs turned out to be amalgams of various parts from several different plants.