Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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I think we should rename Voynich as "The Greatest Hits of Medieval literature".. in one place we can find alchemy, Taccola, De Balneis, French goats, German words, German Crossbowmen, French wolkenbanden, German parchment (I'll post on this later), and herbals that could be Italian or German, oh and either Egyptian or non medieval containers...  No wonder it's so bloody difficult to unlock... But something or someone unites these things....

I assume that the VMS is, in any case, a composite manuscript. The topics of the individual sections could therefore very well be independent of one another. Such compilations were quite common in the Middle Ages. The fact that the various parts were written in different languages is also not unusual.