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[Antonio García Jiménez]

In Voynich there are several pages in which the line of the script invades the drawing and the supposed words are interspersed with the elements of the plants. This is something completely unusual in medieval herbals, where script and drawing are well differentiated. And in cases where the text invades parts of the herb, as occurs for example in Circa instans (Egerton MS 747), the words are written on the drawing, not outside. There is no interspersed text.

What happens in the Voynich is something completely exceptional and makes us think that we are not dealing with the text of a language, but rather with something else.