Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz)]

I know nothing about Margaret, Countess of Tyrol.  I didn't even know her name before I read your post.  Can you tell me what you think the nymphs are in the Voynich Manuscript?  Also, can you tell me what you think the stars are?

I actually was in the same position before studying the Voynich manuscript! So, you are in good company! I am learning about your question still and when I feel more confident I can elaborate more. One thought I have already shared that I am increasinglhy confident about is the following.

In medieval times they took astrological "sciences" very seriously, even though its power of explaining events were debated. Royal and noble courts had astrological advisors for not just political and military, but also personal health and life question, reasons. Astrological judgments are not easy to remember, it is very very detailed and many medieval scientists studied them, pro or con. So, for a "lay" noble countess, it would be very important not only to know her charts in detail, but also to have them easily accessible like a handbook. 

But later in life, the same handbook could have been used to add her final details for her legacy. She may have had the handbook developing throughout her life, so by 1369 when she died it could have shown its age on regular parchment. So, she could have legally arranged with prepayments to have it transferred to more durable vellum at a time she though her sworn enemies had left the scene.

I think Margaret was devising a handbook to visually make it easy to know how, for her own birth chart, the days of the year could be benefic or malefic for doing things, whether health/personal, fertility related, or social and political needs. For this, it was also necessary to know fixed star maps, the ones she could see clearly when she went on the top of her castles! So, the gestures of the nymphs and the stars associated with them served for her to visually see if it was prudent to do this or that.

Her geomantic interest also served the same. She could have a divination session, asking yes or no questions from a particular angel/star for doing A or B. 

Clothed figures, in my view, represent actual people especially herself, the events signifying also a relation to the star readings around the time they happened. I will elaborate more on this, as my learning is also in progress. But, I have also suggested that the many nymphs representing fixed stars represent them as aspects of her own inner stars and selves associated with them. That is why she had the star maps and must have also had more of the planetary information about her birth in the pages that have gone "missing."

Thanks for asking.