No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

The theory that I maintain relates the two aspects of VM: the script and the imagery. For me it is absurd to think that they are two things with different meanings.

Let's look at the herbal section. Of course it is necessary to know medieval culture and mentality, but pure common sense is also a powerful instrument. The author has drawn herbs that not even the most accredited experts have been able to identify. It was a time when fairly realistic drawings of plants were already made, but that does not seem to be the author's objective. This statement is reinforced by the fact that he has not used a known language to recognize them.

In my opinion, there are two solutions: either he has created them through grafts or he has imagined them as existing anywhere on Earth, like those fantastic animals from remote places. In both cases he cannot say anything about them, neither their name nor where to find them nor their medicinal properties. That is the reason why the authors of the VM have invented a language, an astronomical code that serves to indicate, in accordance with the astrological beliefs of the time, that these herbs are created by astral influences. The rest of the imagery in the codex does nothing other than corroborate this idea.