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[Antonio García Jiménez]

In her work, The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma, Mary d' Imperio did a wonderful summary of the research of the book until 1978, something similar to what René Zandbergen has done in the Internet age.

But she also gave her own opinions, some of great value. For example, her description of the drawing of herbs, roots, stems and leaves, as if they were molded from plastic. The almost mechanical rigidity of the plant drawing has been later noticed by other researchers as a distinctive sign of the herbarium.

But Mary d' Imperio went further. She saw the connection of the tubes, pipes, pods and structures that support the female figures in Quire 13 with the way the herbs are drawn.

These objects are drawn in the same chunky, blocky style of architectonic solidity as was noted in connection with the plants

And she gave some examples that relate the two sections and that give unity of meaning to the book.

For example, the two striking spherical objetcs in folios 83v and 90r1


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