Alfonso X's Lapidario: Stones, Stars and Colours

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Hi Julian,
Darren Worley has recently posted some very interesting images on the site of Stephen Bax:
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I found several woodcut images of gemstones that look very like the objects that the nymphs/ladies are holding in the VM Zodiac section. Perhaps these figures are holding gemstones, rather than stars, or perhaps these objects symbolise both?

(BTW, I only now notice that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I referenced one of the books he mentions - the 1491 Hortus Sanitatis).

I briefly mentioned Alfonso's Lapidario in 2014:
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As Rene wrote in his comment to Darren's post, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is another similar Alfonsine ms that is of great interest for Voynich research.

I agree that this is one of the most promising lines of investigation. As always, there is no trivial match with the VMS, but there could well be some deeper relation we haven't understood yet.