Similarities with V glyphs and alchemical figures

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You are right, I think, in saying that the really "high style' of European alchemy comes far too late to be relevant, and in the early 2000s, Adam McLean - an expert on the history of alchemy by any measure - looked carefully through the Vms and said plainly that it had no alchemical imagery of that sort in it.  I assume he would have noticed any alchemical symbols too.  Of course since then he may have modified his views.

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I would agree that there is no overt alchemical imagery in the VMS, but it does have a significant number of male-female, flowing water, rainbow, bird, crown, and distillation-beaker shapes, all of which are part-and-parcel of alchemical documents. I don't know whether they are obtuse alchemical symbols or something else (e.g., biological or astrological or ??), but I think there is a possibility some of them might be alchemical references expressed in a novel way.