[split] Roots and Eagle heraldry

[ReneZ]

I don't want to argue that the root of this plant represents the arms of Novara.

There are two assumptions related to this:
1) the root is representing a heraldic eagle
2) this is then related to the origin of the  Voynich MS.

Both of these are quite uncertain.

However, if anyone comes up with another heraldic explanation of this root, it would have to be better than the example of Nick, in order to be considered a candidate.

Of course, 'better' implies that a similar version was used in the early 15th c, and I don't know if that was the case for Novara.
The various Habsburg examples that have been proposed in recent years do not seem to be 'better' to me.