The Rosettes Page - March 2024

[Mark Knowles]

The Rosettes page is a representation of the medieval cosmos with almost complete certainty. I strongly recommend seeing the only parallel illustrations that can shed light, because any other opinion is the fruit of each person's imagination.

The Treaty on Astrology attributed to Enrique de Aragón, Marquis of Villena, a well-known astrologer who flourished in the first third of the 15th century, is preserved in the National Library of Spain. It is a rigorously contemporary work of the Voynich.

This is one of the illustrations

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In the center, the Earth with its divisions like on a T-map, we see a castle. This is just a small detail. The most significant thing is the illustrations in the corners, full of those cells with dots that are one of the characteristic features of the circles on the Rosettes page. If you see all the illustrations in the book, you will be able to see these little cells in all the corners as decoration.

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There is an obvious parallel with the VM and those cells can only represent the sphere of the stars, which closes the medieval universe. Beyond is the kingdom of God. Even in one of the illustrations in the book there are two tubes in the axis of the North Star and its opposite, tubes like the ones we also see on the Rosettes page.

I have looked at the illustrations you refer to, but I can't see much of a parallel. I would say your theory is the fruit of your imagination and you would say my theory is the fruit of my imagination. I would suggest you expand on theory and seek to explain all the details of the page, because it is the details that normally get ignored and where I think the evidence the page is a map is strongest.