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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I'll tell you what I think. Your theory, like many others when interpreting Quire 13, ignores a very common allegorical procedure in the medieval world which is the personification of natural forces. In countless medieval manuscripts you can see how the planets are humanized. This resource is used in the same VM, where we see the Sun represented with the face of a man and the Moon with the face of a woman.

Seeing the female figures of Quire 13 as women or the spirit of women or human souls is therefore for me one of the most common errors of interpretation. The easiest thing is that they are simply a representation of astral forces and specifically a personification of the stars. This interpretation is reinforced by the fact that in the zodiacal pages the same female figures appear holding a star. That many of these figures, if not all, look pregnant is also an allegorical resource to indicate that they are the ones who give birth to the plants, bring them water and make them grow. This interpretation is what gives coherence to all parts of the book.Some of them appear with rings and spindles, which again is allegorical. With these details the author wants to indicate that the stars shine and are what spin the hours, days and years of time.

This that I have presented is the most reasonable interpretation according to medieval mentality.