Textual Complexity vs. Visual Simplicity

[ReneZ]

The nymphs in VM were probably supposed to be pretty but they are ...not

I once gave a talk about the Voynich MS in my home country, and I could not avoid placing special emphasis on Panofsky's remark:

... it shows Jewish or Arab influence, probably in connection with the Kabbala; but also Dutch or Flemish influence in the female faces and figures and some Spanish or anyhow southern qualities. This last impression was strengthened in his mind by the character of the greens and red