05-04-2019, 08:42 PM
Getting back to the Collection of alchemical, technical, medical, magic and divinatory tracts posted by Paris, the magic characters remind me of some of the Liber de quindecim stellis which describes the virtues of fifteen stars, stones, herbs and magic characters. I've seen these characters in the book Magic in medieval manuscripts by Sophie Page. One of them is very similar to one of the Voynich, the extended Eva-t.
Liber de quindecim stellis shows how to make natural talismans incorporating the combined powers of a star, stone, herb and character. According to Sophie Page it was natural magic and that's why several copies of the manuscript survived the ecclesiastical censorship.
There is another coincidence with the VMS. The virtues of natural talismans are greater when the Moon is in conjunction with the constellation of the Pleiades.
Liber de quindecim stellis shows how to make natural talismans incorporating the combined powers of a star, stone, herb and character. According to Sophie Page it was natural magic and that's why several copies of the manuscript survived the ecclesiastical censorship.
There is another coincidence with the VMS. The virtues of natural talismans are greater when the Moon is in conjunction with the constellation of the Pleiades.