[split] Roots and Eagle heraldry

[ReneZ]

It is clear that the so-called eagle-root can be interpreted in several different ways:
- a reference to San Michael
- a reference to the arms of the city of Novara
- a reference to the arms of the Habsburgs and/or Tyrol

Not all of them may be sound (we are all amateurs) and there may undoubtedly more.

There are two ways of using this 'information'.

1) All of the options are added to the general list of tentative identifications, and as soon as this list is long enough, some pattern may emerge.

2) One already has a hypothesis about the origin and meaning of the Voynich MS, and one picks the option that best fits this hypothesis.

Clearly, the second is methodically not sound. It is 'backward' logic, or projecting one's hypothesis on the illustrations in the Voynich MS.
(A typical example is the meso-american theory of A.Tucker et al, where essentially all herbal illustrations have been projected onto meso-american species).

The first is the way to go, but I daresay it is all too weak, and incomplete at that, to allow for much progress.