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[Linda]

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Is this little dragon that seems to have been created by Walt Disney real?

Of course not. It is a creation of the powerful imagination of the author of the Voynich, like everything else in the book. He used his imagination to explore the hidden powers of nature, the science of his time.

Did he believe that there could be in that wide world that did not know dragons and herbs like the ones he drew?

This is the big question and where I think you have to start investigating the Voynich

Is it real? It is real in the sense that it is a drawing of a dragonlike creature on parchment. Did the creature exist in real life? Not likely. Did it exist as another drawing in some other manuscript? Possibly. It might not be a creation per se, but a copy, or a reference thereto.

Did the artist believe dragons were real? Not necessarily, as he did not draw it to scale, but rather as a tiny addition to a drawing of a plant. To me this puts it in a mnemonic framework, invoking something about the mythology of dragons with regard to the plant. It may mean the plant burns in some way, to touch it or to taste it, or is otherwise dangerous or related to dragon lore in some way, name similar, etc. Or it may simply have been copied from a prior drawing which was intended to convey similar meaning, without the artist knowing what plant it was or what the reference was.

I do not think they drew the dragon to convince people they exist, it is not necessary for them to exist to refer to them.