No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Ok Tavie, if you agree that female figures are astral spirits, why don't you try to convince the forum that there is no biological or balneological section in the VM? Because that simple assumption of Panofsky's ideas would radically change the way we see the book.

I am amazed at the frivolity with which people talk about the great researchers of the last century. It seems that in this matter no one wants to stand on the shoulders of giants to see better.

Of course, it does not follow from Panofsky's ideas about the iconography of VM that the script is not text. I have never said that. What I always say is that understanding the iconography is the first step, a necessary step to understanding the script.

I know that my theory about the script is absurd for our mentality, that is why I have always said that understanding iconography would help us see that the script is only a means of uniting the stars with the plants, something that is perfectly conceivable within the medieval magical astrology.