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[Antonio García Jiménez]

In medieval manuscripts stars were represented as small colored circles, drawn with points or a mixture of the two, as we see in the Voynich. Anyone who takes a look at the book will see the prominent presence that the stars have in it. Where this relationship is best seen is in the last section, where each piece of the script is headed by a star. Whatever the script means, the presence of the star in each paragraph is a clear sign of the importance that astronomy has in the book, not only in the imagery but also in the script.

In many of the stars drawn in the VM you can clearly see a small central circle:

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I believe that that same small circle is the glyph that we see in the script [o] and that therefore there is an obvious correspondence between the imagery and the script

This correspondence becomes palpable or tangible in the literal sense in the upper star of that folio f58r, where we see how a thread coming out of the tip of the star joins the glyph that begins the script.

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