Observations on the Visual and Functional Structure of the Voynich Manuscript

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Thanks for the question. I’m not saying that all herbals or illustrated works were for semi-literate people. In the Voynich Manuscript, the images often take up half a page or more and are deliberately enlarged and distorted, so anyone looking can understand immediately. The text is a lot and important, but in some sections the images guide understanding, while the text gives extra details for those who can read. The manuscript could serve both people following the images and those reading for a deeper understanding. I focus only on what can be seen, not on what the text says.

In many herbals images take a large part of the page, this is the normal style of a herbal. What evidence can you provide that the images were enlarged and distorted? For example, let's take this plant below, f37r. Which part of it was enlarged/distorted? What should it look like without enlargement/distortion?