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[Antonio García Jiménez]

There are tubes or cylindrical shapes in almost every section of the Voynich manuscript. In the pharmaceutical section, alongside ornate vessels, we see others shaped like tubes—albarellos—and in the herbal section, we also observe roots with tubular forms.

  Mary D'Imperio was the first researcher to observe that certain plant roots resembled pipe-shaped sculpted blocks and bore a resemblance to the piping in the section featuring female figures.

   There is a clear interconnection among all parts of the Voynich manuscript which, in my interpretation, aims to show how astral influence is channeled into herbs to endow them with virtues—whether medicinal or magical.