The Voynich Ninja

Virgo - as Mary - with a single star.
From the article:

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[font=sans-serif]Many depictions of Mary from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (14th to 16th century) show her standing on a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. inspired by the association of Mary with the woman of the Apocalypse. The motif became so popular in 15th-century Germany that pre-existing Madonna figures were refitted with a crescent (e.g. Madonna of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., c. 1300, refitted in the 15th century)."[/font]

Is this another flower?

British Library Add MS 22413

It looks more like a star than a flower to me. But the MS is Hebrew and I'm not sure what to expect of the signs in this art style. Also, the ink is badly faded. It looks like there may have been a flower with rounded petals inside the larger "four-pointed star"?

Fun fact: the animal for Cancer in this MS is a beaver! Well, the description calls it a hybrid, but it looks mostly like a medieval beaver to me.

Perhaps it has to do with precession. 

Spica is believed to be the star that gave Hipparchus the data that led him to discover the precession of the equinoxes.

Note that Virgo is across from Pisces, the latter of which is now, and during the time of the vms creation, the current age. Don't know how Scorpio figures into it, though, other than it is a water sign and Virgo is an earth sign...Fishes live in the water on earth? 

There was a big deal about calendar reform during this time. About finding the 'correct' day for Easter. The Julian calendar was out of accord and known to be out of accord in the works of Roger Bacon, yet attempts to reform failed until 1582, when Gregorian reforms *started*.

Given several significant, historical attempts between Bacon and Pope Gregory XIII, one wonders why did they fail? Was there opposition to the suggestions that were proposed? Several earlier popes also promoted the efforts because of the religious connection to finding Easter. And it's still too early to see much challenge to geocentrism, isn't it?

I found another Virgo that has a dress of the same color and a similar position of the hands, but no star.
Unfortunately the resolution is what it is. I think the manuscript was written in Prague: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Rereading this thread, I had forgotten the Virgo of Prague. See Post #21

I think that image is a pretty interesting comparison.

It would help to resolve the issue of a potential ink pattern on the hat of VMs Virgo - under the blue paint.