No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

If you go to Google Scholar to see what there is about the Voynich you will see that almost everything published there refers to the script. It is disappointing for someone like me who thinks that the script will not be understood until a correct iconographic reading is made of the images of the codex.

Fortunately, I have found an article written by Lincoln Taiz and Sandra Lee Taiz in 2011 in which they treat the biological section of the Voynich, Quire13, as the medieval way of looking at plant physiology. His approach is not new because Mary D'Imperio already pointed to the design coincidences between the pipes through which the female figures slide and the well-modeled stems of the herbs. For these authors as for D'Imperio, the green liquid in which the figures are bathed could represent the sap of plants.

What most caught my attention in the article was the reference to the classic work De Plantis and its influence on medieval authors such as Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus. 

The authors relate the biological section and the herbarium with the cosmological and zodiacal sections saying that: It is stated in 'De Plantis' that each plant germinates and grows according to its star. 

I already mentioned two medieval authors who related each herb to a star. The authors see in the female figures, according to Aristotle, the soul of the plants. For me they are the spirit of the stars.