No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

I don't think anyone would say that interpreting Quire 13 is easy. If it were, it would have ceased to be a mystery a long time ago. The conventional interpretation is that the images have to do with women bathing or with female anatomy, but there is nothing in the rest of the codex to support that interpretation. The only reasonable thing to do is to look elsewhere in the book to see if we can find support. And what I maintain is that there is a valid interpretation because we have a context, the zodiacal section, where we see the same female figures holding stars. 

   Any theory about something unknown must seek coherence between its parts. My interpretation of Quire 13 is coherent not only with the zodiacal section but also with others, such as the herbal section, some cosmological pages, and the Rosettes. My recent posts have attempted to demonstrate this coherence.

   Naturally, you may disagree, and there are probably others who disagree as well. But I maintain a theory that attempts to be coherent, and I would like to see an alternative theory that competes with mine in terms of coherence. A large majority of people are interested in deciphering the script, and what I say, and have always maintained, is that the Voynich imagery conveys a message. There's no need to wait to find out what the script says, if it says anything at all.