Eleven Moon Phases in Folio 86v?

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Except for the four human figures that may represent the four seasons, this striking image by f86v4 has a clear relationship with the Rosettes page, where we see the same circles of small bumps.

In the central rosette, the bumps with dots alternate with tubes. These dots indicate that the bumps have a hole, meaning they are also tubes. The entire page is a representation of the medieval cosmos, and the central sphere corresponds to that of the fixed stars, each of which channels its influence through these tubes.

In f86v4 there are only a few dotted bumps, but it's as if they were all there because they actually represent tubes. The concentric layers are the celestial spheres that reach right up to the moon, which we see in the center.

  You can't draw a sphere in two dimensions, so we have to imagine this image as a ball completely riddled with holes. They are tubes just like the ones we see in other cosmological diagrams from the Voynich.