Is the VMS a work of female authors ?

[bi3mw]

1) An argument in favor of women being behind the VM relies on a mostly literal reading of the imagery. The plants are medicinal, Q13 has to do with feminine health, basically a scientific compendium. Is this correct?

Not necessarily, also other interpretations are possible, which would not exclude a female authorship in any case ( I refrain here from naming my "favorite theory" to Q13 ). Basically I believe that everything that could be thematized by men could also be taken up by women. Otherwise one would have to ask the other way round, what could be a typical male view on the visual language.