[split] Zodiac Terminology discussion

[Searcher]

So no, I don't think the "zodiac pages" are something new. I think they are firmly in the tradition of their time. Each sign is a month; each nymph is an attribute of the month.

The Voynich MS fits squarely in the last category, where the association with the months was made some time later by (presumably) a later owner, and there are not the illustrations related to the months that are typical for calendars.

While I think, these folios with the Zodiac Signs may be a calendar, I think about anything, but not about labours. Nothing here says about that. They are traditional, but in the same time they can represent any other calendar, which must be more or less a secret. 
We probably discussed this earlier, but it is interesting that that who made inscriptions of the month names began the sequence of months correctly (rather usually), as March usually was placed first, but the problem is that in medieval times the sign of Pisces, in the context of calendaries, was linked to Ferbruary, not to March. Aries was the standard "label" of March. Maybe, the later owner wanted to match the usual sequence to the unusual order of the VMs diagrams.