Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Antonio García Jiménez]

I agree that the new Jerusalem or heavenly Jerusalem can be represented on the Rosettes pages. It is as if the city were based on the sphere of the fixed stars. It is an original representation that comes to say, according to medieval thought, that it is God who gives power to the stars. In L'image du monde, by Gautier or Gossouin de Metz, it is said that All difference that happens by nature in herbs, in plants in animals happens through the celestial power that God gave to the stars.

In the VM there are other Christian signs, such as this flower in the shape of a cross that seems to have been made with the nails of the crucifixion. 

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Or this female figure holding a cross, which is very obvious

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Or this bird that I believe represents the Holy Spirit

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Everything in the Voynich seems to be drawn with childish features, as if it were a game. Taking into account the high number of scribes involved, according to Lisa Fagin Davis, makes me think that the book was born in a monastery and was made by very playful monks