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[Antonio García Jiménez]

The Rosettes page is for me a representation of the medieval universe. In previous posts I've already given some reasons why I hold this interpretation. Now I want to highlight a very important detail for this identification. It concerns the small slabs with a dot that we can see on the Rosettes, especially in the central circle.

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  These slabs most likely allude to the sphere of the fixed stars, the last sphere of the medieval universe, completely closed and studded with stars.

   The closest image to this one that I have found is in the astrology treatise attributed to Enrique de Villena, a contemporary work of the Voynich.

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  This codex contains illustrated pages with astronomical information about eclipses, the movements of the sun, moon, and planets, Earth's latitudes, etc. In the margins of these pages, one can see those dotted slabs that represent the sphere of fixed stars, which serves as a boundary for the other spheres.

I highly recommend consulting this treatise on astrology to see this detail and other very inspiring aspects of the medieval universe. It is digitized and available at the National Library of Spain.