The Voynich elephant

[Oocephalus]

JKP:

I doubt if I would have seen a boar in it before I had looked at a lot of medieval drawings of animals, but if you assume the longer-than-normal nose on the animal shape is part of the root on either side of the animal, then it does look like some of the boars drawn at that time. Some strongly emphasize the nose.

I've now looked at the collection of medieval boar illustrations You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and it's clear that some elephant drawings, such as the one in the Lombardy herbal, were strongly influenced by them. It seems the artist thought that an elephant was something like a boar with longer tusks and a very long nose. So maybe that's what we might be seeing in f55v.