No text, but a visual code

[tavie]

Yes, that's my point.  The Lapidary of Alfonso, which contains...text.  A lot of it.  I don't see how the problem can be our failure to understand the medieval mind, otherwise wouldn't we be tripping over "no text but a visual code" manuscripts from the time?

We know there were different beliefs back then that connected medicine to astrology.  It's very plausible that part of the manuscript deals with this.  It's even possible that parts are about the believed relationships between the stars and herbs.  But...how do you convey this relationship without...text?  With absolutely no words?  In an entire manuscript?

The reason your theory has yet to be accepted has nothing to do with any failure to understand "the medieval mind".  It is because 

1. you haven't shown any example of a text-free contemporary manuscript;
   
2. you haven't explained why the manuscript would be utterly text-free (no commentary?  no introduction or labelling?  no explanations?); and 
   
3. you haven't been able to match up any part of the Voynich to a star chart or otherwise text-free astrological system.
   

(And yes I have read through all 131 pages of your thread.  But I have said somewhere in it before that when so many of the posts are "bumps", your points are going to be easily lost in it all, and it discourages re-reading).