• The botanical pages could represent either plants grown near beehives or flowers favored by bees for nectar. In some drawings, the roots seem exaggerated — possibly indicating how “attractive” the plant is to bees (e.g., stronger roots = more nectar?).
  
• Many of the female figures might represent bees — particularly worker bees or queens — often depicted immersed in fluid, holding objects (perhaps pollen or tools), or emerging from pipes (perhaps hive entrances).
  
• The spiral or rosette diagrams might be stylized cross-sections of hives, showing their inner structure or seasonal changes.
  
• The astronomical sections might represent the cycle of queen production, honey storage patterns, or symbolic relationships between bees and celestial patterns — such as star positions during swarming.
  
• The lack of realistic depiction in many plants could reflect a bee’s visual world (colors from above vs. below, petal symmetry, etc.), not a human herbalist’s.
  

• Why some women are crowned or veiled (perhaps symbolizing queens),
  
• Why the text is written so carefully (a sacred or secret manuscript about bees?),
  
• Why there is only one copy (a ritual or private use?).
  

(14-07-2025, 02:18 PM)えすじーけけ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

• The lack of realistic depiction in many plants could reflect a bee’s visual world (colors from above vs. below, petal symmetry, etc.), not a human herbalist’s.
  

(Yesterday, 02:38 PM)えすじーけけ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@oshfdk
Thank you for pointing that out — I realize now that my wording was unclear.
I didn’t mean the bees’ visual world (like UV sensitivity), but rather a visual system shaped by what bees care about behaviorally — such as nectar locations, root structure, or access paths.

(Yesterday, 02:38 PM)えすじーけけ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.For example, in one page that shows a flower resembling a sunflower, the bottom part of the image seems to show what might be the underside of the flower. Since bees often crawl into flowers like sunflowers to reach nectar, I thought perhaps the scribe considered the underside to be the most important part from a bee’s perspective — and connected it visually below the rest of the flower to reflect that idea.

(Yesterday, 02:38 PM)えすじーけけ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As you said, the bee dance was probably not understood in the 15th century. But I noticed that in the astronomical pages, the women are veiled or robed, and it made me wonder whether the scribe may have been exploring a possible connection between celestial cycles and queen-bee traits or lifecycles. That kind of thinking — linking animals to the stars — was not unusual in the Middle Ages.
I'm just exploring possibilities at this point. Thanks again for engaging with the idea!

• Many of the female figures might represent bees — particularly worker bees or queens — often depicted immersed in fluid, holding objects (perhaps pollen or tools), or emerging from pipes (perhaps hive entrances).