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[HermesRevived]

Hermes, I do not believe that the planets are represented in Voynich. They are not in the imagery nor in the script. This is consistent with the fact that the VM shares the same astrological philosophy as Alfonso's lapidary, in which the planets play no role. Except the sun and the moon, considered planets in the Middle Ages.

  The astral influence, both in Voynich and in Alfonso's lapidary, is above all that exerted by the fixed stars. In the VM on the herbs, in the lapidary on the stones.

I believe that the script is a notation in which the sun and moon serve to help locate the zodiacal stars in the ecliptic.

Lacking planets, the only variable becomes the Moon. The fixed stars are... well, fixed. They follow the same cycles every year. As does the Sun. What changes? If there are no 'wandering stars' (planets), only the Moon changes, in short or long cycles. And the Soli-lunar nodes. Weather, of course, changes (by definition.) If the notation concerns the fixed stars, what variables is the notation tracking? 

By my account, the solar cycle would just render a text that goes: [qokeedy.qokeedy.qokeedy.qokeedy...] What causes it to break up into words like [okeedy.kedy.qok.okedy.okeedy...]?

I can see reflections in the Hartley ms. but I am far more convinced of the connections with the Lapidary of Alfonso and the especially the Brescia Handy Tables of Ptolemy, (plus Ptolemy's Phases of the Fixed Stars.) The Brescia Canones convinces me the author was in Northern Italy (and probably knows the Lapidary secondhand through Catalan teachers in Italian universities.)