No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Stolfi, there is nothing more diametrically opposed to my view than yours. To say that the Voynich images are merely decorative is to ignore the communicative power that images—any image—held in the Middle Ages, a time when very few people could read or write.

   Nice to meet you, Michael:

   Ultimately, it is a matter of knowing how to read medieval images. You either know how or you don't. I don't claim to know absolutely every detail we see in the Voynich, but I believe I can interpret the essentials. If I say that the roof of a tent—an image that recurs in the codex—represents the roof of the medieval universe (the sphere of the fixed stars), what surprises me is that I am the only one interpreting it this way, given that there are members of this forum well-qualified to see it as I do.

    You mention a scientific journal that describes the Rosettes foldout as the female uterus, which I find quite amusing. It is actually a representation of the medieval cosmos, and I have explained the reason for this on several occasions.

     Various hypotheses can be formulated to explain the Voynich, but you will agree with me that the more comprehensive a hypothesis is regarding all sections of the codex, the more well-founded, and closer to the truth, it will be. The goal is to build a coherent system comprising everything—all the images and the script—without discarding anything.