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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I want to insist on the observations that Mary D'Imperio made because I have not seen them anywhere else and for me they are of great insight. She gives some examples that relate the tubes of the female figures on Quire 13 with the drawing of the herbs.

I put one before, and now I put this:

A structure on folio 79v of three pipes surrounding a larger central tube resembles the root crown of the plant on folio 90r1

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And this other observation from D'Imperio

The pipe-like structures that coil around the figures (and into which, or from which, thev appear to be transmitting some mysterious vapor or liquid) could well represent plant parts such as roots or stems in schematic form