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RE: No text, but a visual code - Antonio García Jiménez - 24-11-2025
Linda, the medieval representation of the cosmos has nothing to do with what we see on a starry night. It's not figurative; we could say abstract, as you say, but I prefer to call it the representation of a mental conception. That is to say, what we see on the Rosettes page is a drawing of an intellectual way of viewing the universe. Even if only for this fascinating drawing, the Voynich has enormous cultural importance, because there is no other representation of the medieval cosmos that I know of that is so complete and graphic.
The medieval universe is like an onion composed of various layers or crystalline spheres. The outermost layer or sphere, that of the fixed stars, is solid and riddled with holes. These holes are filled with stars, some brighter than others, and some that we cannot even see. It's somewhat similar to our own perception, although in the Middle Ages some stars weren't farther away than others; they were all stuck like tacks to the sphere.
That's why we see those tubes protruding from the central sphere of the Rosettes. It's to better show the holes where the stars are housed. The other decoration serves the same purpose: the wavy line around the circle and the slabs or cells with a dot. That dot also represents a hole, just like in the tubes. What the artists wanted to show is that the entire sphere is riddled with holes and filled with stars. We also see how the central sphere is linked to the others on the Rosettes page because it is an interconnected universe and celestial influences radiate from the central sphere.
Apart from all this, which is fundamental because it expresses the idea, there are other minor elements that are whims of the author of the drawing.