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[Jorge_Stolfi]

The fact that there are vessels in the Rosettes that are similar to those we see in the pharmaceutical section is self-evident.

Rather, there are "things" in the central rosette that resemble towers or drug vessels.  Or the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of Catholic lithurgy.  Or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..   Or the upper part of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  Or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  Or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., particularly You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..  

AFAIK most people who looked at those things saw "towers".   The theory that they are drug vessels seems to be quite recent. 

I think your theory that the Voynich has an oriental origin conditions your perception and leads you to not see reality as it is.

Those onion roofs are totally not Chinese.  They seem to be very characteristically Russian/Ukranian, a style of church towers that started in those bands some time before 1400, possibly by inspiration and exaggeration of Persian and Indian models.  

One of the new results that I have seen emerge over the last year or so is that a large part of the VMS illustrations, perhaps most of them, were copied from a royal salad of European manuscripts that were somewhat popular at the lime.  Like the Balneis Puteolanis, that Oresme book with the cloud-band and pea soup continent, that German almanac with the old lady with three olympic rings and the doctor examining urine in a perfume bottle, the Taccola waterworks, ... So I bet that those onion towers in the central rosette were copied from some random book too.  

And perhaps even the originals were ciboria or bilboqets, but the Artist mis-interpreted them as towers...

And it seems that some people have happily accepted the "vessel" theory only because of their conviction that "it is obviously European" -- and "Russian" would not be European enough...

All the best, --stolfi