Why the rosettes image may not be a map at all

[Linda]

And what this pattern designates in Walters?

It represents Earth: the pattern is in most cases filled with green and occurs in a number of diagrams representing "Earth" as "the World" (we would now say "planet Earth"). 

In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. it represents Earth ("Terre") as one of the Four Elements. I think the title in red above the illustration could translate "The Earth keeps itself at the exact center of the Universe".

Some early world maps also drew the world as a hill rising out of a surrounding ocean, so the mountain idea could still be indicated along with the Earth/Terra identification.

In fact I think quire 14 shows this hill idea twice in the same rosette, one in a drawing of said hill: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Note that the writing in the circle around the rosette has a mark right where the mountain is, I think this indicates this is a starting point of understanding the graphics as well. The other can be seen in the spiral wording through the stars which can be thought of as a 3d hill, surrounded by the waves, or 7 seas, combined to become the grander outer ocean, same as indicated by the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. link above. Here is the quire 14 view which matches it, in my interpretation at least: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I see other layers of meaning in this rosette as well, but these seem pertinent to the posted link.

Here is Cosmas' tabernacle (circa 550) which shows this idea from the side. The drawing of the mountain in the first jasondavies link above I think shares some commonality with the shape of this one and/or ones like it. Again most of the waters are all connected and basically surround the mountain, and the world can be seen as being made up of earth, water, air, and fire (the sun) in this interpretation as well. (all in a nice handy box).

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f48v of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde (1489) has illustrations of the world with a pattern similar to some details of the Rosettes page. The pattern in also similar to a common way to illustrate mountains that can also be seen in the Beatus map Linda linked You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. But in the Walters ms each element of the texture has a central dot, as in some of the occurrences in the Voynich ms.

also if you combine this motif and the umbrellas and nebuly lines, you get the meaning of the "pine cones": ice cap melt and or precipitation runoff from mountains (i.e. water from on high)

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la terre le tient droit au fut milieu (where milieu=environment/surroundings cause univers=universe)

feu = fire
air 
yaiir ???
terre = earth/ground

Sorry, David, I accidentally cut a word from the label. See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

La terre se tient droit au fin milieu du monde.

Earth keeps itself right (droit) at the exact (fin) middle of the universe.


yaue=eau=water, I guess.

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