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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Of course, there were strictly astronomical books in the Middle Ages. Sacrobosco's Treatise on the Sphere, perhaps the most widely used university textbook, is a good example.

  We could interpret some pages of the Voynich as astronomical or cosmological, but what we see in them is, in addition to the sun and the moon, stars, many stars. The astrological character of the codex is fundamentally given to it by the zodiacal section, but it has nothing to do with human astrology.

  It was a great expert in iconography like Panofsky who related this section of the Voynich with the astromagic books of King Alfonso X. I think he was thinking above all about the lapidary, which is an astrological lapidary. The Voynich may well be its equivalent in magical herbs, an astrological herbal.