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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I would recommend whoever looks at the Voynich for the first time to learn a little about the allegory system of medieval iconography. I say this because it is very easy to be fooled by images.

For example, take a look at this illustration of a contemporary VM codex. Except for the image of the writer Christine de Pizan, which reflects a real woman, all other images are ideals, abstractions.

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Something similar happens with the female figures of Quire 13 of the Voynich. They are represented as women, but they are abstractions, a representation of the virtue of the stars.

In Christine de Pizan's illustration the nine muses are inside the fountain of wisdom. In the VM the stars are also inside a fountain, the fountain of life.