Voynich's anatomy

[Linda]

May I ask, what is the body part on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. thought to be?

Hard to tell.  If we consider how much the Scribe mangled other illustrations (not just in Bio, but in other sections too), the two organs that were meant to be depicted there could be eyeballs, kidneys, testicles, ovaries, ...  maybe even lungs...

The serpentine pipe in the E margin of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does not look much like the intestines either.  However, what else could it be?  I cannot imagine why one would build a water pipe with that shape, in a bath house or anywhere else.  

That serpentine pipe by itself still suggests anatomy only weakly.  But together with the other drawings on  that page, the suggestion is too strong to dismiss.

All the best, --stolfi

I agree they are all very weak in terms of definitely being something, whatever that something is. They certainly did a good job with the ambiguity. 

It's funny, though, I was just looking at portolan examples of the area I was equating with the intestines drawing, and some of them were from hundreds of years in the future, in terms of the vms, but I realized that time helped nothing, a lot of it was far off reality, ie also very weak, and using the intestines drawing as a mnemonic for that area would have helped a lot of them make more realistic maps. 

For me these eyeballs on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are also eyeballs, a little more metaphorically, and more because some of the Beatus map traditions drew the Nile source to look like criss-crossed eyeballs, especially the Girona and Turin versions, and the Ptolomy style maps look even more like eyeballs with eyelashes but there is less emphasis on the crisscrossing. It was all meant to convey that there are multiple points of origin from the mountains where the water would sometimes cross, come together, or split apart again but still be called the Nile, not to mention the white and blue.