No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

As Hermes says, the script is a notation system arranged like a linguistic text. I believe that this is so because it is about representing the astral influence on the herbs and that requires finding an appropriate means of communication. With the use of visual symbols and some numbers the author or authors try to use a scientific language, which in the mentality of the time is equivalent to saying a magical language.

  The Voynich is above all an astrological book. It is not a herbal nor a cosmological book. It is an attempt to unite both things.