The Voynich Manuscript as an Iberian-African Voyage Record

[rikforto]

All paintings are not 100% correct and more of a symbolic nature. They are painted from descriptions or from sketches that maybe only contain parts of the plants and the rest was made up. That is what you would expect from the first travel books to Africa at that time. Systematic paintings start a lot later, around 1500. 

This may be true, but it greatly weakens this line of evidence. If much f it is incorrect and up to interpretation, it will be hard to establish when we're looking at genuine information from an African [and swap out other theories being developed along these lines] voyage and when we're looking at symbols and when we're looking at the artists pure speculation. By all means, try and systemically prove which piece we have in front of us, but be aware that's the challenge in front of you.

This is hardly a new problem as it comes up every time someone puts forward the drawings as a launching point, but if you can just ignore inconvenient pieces as symbolic or inaccurate, it becomes pretty easy to fit the drawings to much of the world.