The Voynich Manuscript:Decoded ( theory )

[MichelleL11]

Are my eyes deceiving me or did he genuinely include an image clearly not from the VMS and claim it to be?

You are not wrong!!  He even further annotates it as "Figure 39 VM Object Showing Name “Alfonsina.”  



It took me ages to track it down, since nothing turned up in google reverse image search.  I've eventually found it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  It is a sketch of a cannon by Antonio Pisanello, previously thought to be da Vinci's.



That is a huge error to have got through any proofreading, although his publisher has accepted You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

I'd just like to add that comparison of Voynich containers (if not actual "containers") to ornate cannons is a long tradition, that I personally saw first by Ellie Velinska in the thread linked below in 2016 (I believe the cannon discussion was originally on her blog, but it is sadly no longer available -- but luckily some parts she re-posted on the forum):

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but this visual connection could well have been made earlier.  This is possibly where the error was made.