Update on the Voynich Manuscript

I previously posted about the mysterious manuscript, but it appears that a solution has been discovered. As it turns out, the Voynich Manuscript is a plagiarized women's health guide written in abbreviated Latin.

Courtesy Nicholas Gibbs, from The Times Literary Supplement:

It became obvious that each character in the Voynich manuscript represented an abbreviated word and not a letter. 

From the herbarium incorporated into the Voynich manuscript a standard pattern of abbreviations and ligatures emerged from each plant entry. The abbreviations correspond to the standard pattern of words used in the Herbarium Apuleius Platonicus – aq = aqua (water), dq = decoque / decoctio (decoction), con = confundo (mix), ris = radacis / radix (root), s aiij = seminis ana iij (3 grains each), etc. So the herbarium of the Voynich manuscript must therefore be a series of (“simple”) recipe ingredients with the necessary measures.

An underwhelming solution, but a solution nonetheless.

Update: Apparently, some are fairly dubious of this solution.