The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[rikforto]

There is no evidence that the other sections are about "European" stuff.  The illustrations were probably done by an European artist/scribe, but much of their apparent "Eurpeanness" is due to him having copied pictures from European books (often without understanding them).

Even the Zodiac diagrams are rather alien, in spite of the icons at the center.

No, the drawings are certainly evidence for European subject matter, albeit not evidence the subject matter is certainly European. The idea that the content of the drawings is a line of evidence for the subject matter of the text is so straightforwardly obvious that I am struggling to articulate how natural it is. I grant, it is not definitive, and there is no need to rehearse to me alternate interpretations or why we should be cautious making sweeping claims with it. But European dress, European figures, European architecture, Western Zodiac, and European media point a certain way and you are the one dismissing evidence out of hand because it contradicts your assumptions about the text