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[Linda]

Many medieval works of art have a childlike quality. I'm thinking, for example, of a work I know well: the Cantigas de Santa María, with its narrative miniatures of the miracles of the Virgin, reminiscent of comic strips. Or the story of the Norman conquest of England in the Bayeux Tapestry, which looks as if it were made by a child.

The Cantigas are preserved in four manuscripts:[5]

To (códice de Toledo, Biblioteca Nacional de España, MS 10069, link to manuscript)
T (códice rico, Biblioteca de El Escorial, MS T.I.1, link to manuscript)
F (códice de Florencia, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS b.r. 20, link to manuscript)
E (códice de los músicos, Biblioteca de El Escorial MS B.I.2, link to manuscript)

Well, it's not the first one i looked at, which was the last one, which is basically musical instrument related insofar as the drawings, which makes sense, since it is musical. I don't see the childlike aspect as the drawings of the instruments seem rather complex. But there are no comic strips per se.
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Ah, it is likely this one, I see what you mean by the comic strips, but again I do not see the commonality with the Quire 13 drawings, these seem much easier to understand, the story of Maria. (I confess I only looked at a few)
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Or this one which shows comic strips of sorts which include the musical instruments and the flow of the liturgical motions while playing to the figure of Maria and Child in the church?
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The first one in the list is not it, as there are no drawings, only decorative text and musical notations.
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The Bayeaux Tapestry also I can see within the context of the Norman conquest of England. Again I don't find it very childlike. 

But I see nothing to show me that the medieval mind thought of fluid astral forces flowing through tubes, so I don't see the comparability. 

  If a child heard an ancient preacher speak of the pains of hell, he would probably draw the torments of the damned that we see on the tympanums of medieval churches. We've all seen that miniature of Gregory the Great writing with a dove by his ear, meant to represent that his works were inspired by the Holy Spirit. If we tell a child that God spoke to the saint through a dove, I don't think they'd do anything differently.

Yes but religious iconography is well known, and there is lots of it. It is indoctrinated into all who are born into it. But how does a child get the idea of tubal astral fluidity being involved in plant husbandry from religious iconography? It must come from somewhere else, no?

I see some of this in the way the author has arranged the female figures in the tubes or the rows of figures in the pools waiting to launch themselves down the tube. It's like a comic strip depicting how astral influence is channeled.

I see the comic book idea, but how would one see this as astral influence, that is what I was getting at, to understand it as such, would there not be precedents to tweak one's memory? Or are you saying this is the first exposition of this idea?

You were talking about the concept of tubal transfer of astral fluidity, saying that you saw it in quire 13.

it is the way in which the most abstract ideas were expressed in medieval times.

I took that to mean you had seen other examples of this idea expressed in a similar manner. That is what I was asking for an example of. If it was so common an understanding at that time, one would think there would be other examples. I can see no way to apply the examples you have given to obtain this result, I can only see the comic strip idea from those, which i already understood from the use of the term. 

When I look for a precedent of astral influence on plants in the 15th century and add the word tubes, I get an ai summary of your theory for the Voynich Manuscript, nothing else. In all of quire 13 there are no stars, moons, or planets, nor plants or seeds, for that matter. I get that you are looking at the whole and pulling in the stars and the zodiac and the herbs, and I believe you can see the ideas you express, but I would be better convinced that others would see this at the time if there were examples of this sort of thinking as expressed by others from that time.