21-02-2026, 02:20 PM
It is simply a scientific book, scientific for its time of course. It is true that there are not many religious symbols, but there are enough to consider it a work of Christian tradition.
We have the female figure holding a cross (f79v); what I believe to be the dove of the Holy Spirit (f86v3); a stem that coils like a bishop's staff (f56r); and the image that I think has the strongest Christian flavor in the entire book: The herb has a root shaped like a beast, leaves shaped like spears, and flowers resembling the nails with which Christ was nailed to the cross. This image by f90v1 has a powerful symbolic meaning.
We have the female figure holding a cross (f79v); what I believe to be the dove of the Holy Spirit (f86v3); a stem that coils like a bishop's staff (f56r); and the image that I think has the strongest Christian flavor in the entire book: The herb has a root shaped like a beast, leaves shaped like spears, and flowers resembling the nails with which Christ was nailed to the cross. This image by f90v1 has a powerful symbolic meaning.