Very interesting reasoning and argumentation here.
Finally it all converges to the same point where one can make only one conclusion: not only the text is a deliberate and careful cipher,
but also the images are carefully composed with elements that are general enough for not hinting or giving anything about the manuscript contents nor it's meaning.
Guessing why it has been done, has proven to be unsuccessful, and therefore a useless exercise.
The real question
why it is all ciphered, can only be answered after decryption.
The best thing to ask is:
How can we decipher medieval images?
Comparing images has shown that such a thing is not enough: we can find similar looking images, but never were exact replicated images or parts of images found.
There are some very small successes, such as in the zodiacal images and some plant parts, but never did it result in anything that was an exact match.
Such an exact match could show us a direction for solving the image and text mysteries of the manuscript, but none were found.
Are there OTHER WAYS to look at the Voynich manuscript and to decipher the origin of the images?
Because the known and present method of such study has
not yet (was it 400 years of study only ..? resulted in something,
perhaps it is time to invent and to rethink the methods.
This thread is about the assumed lack of Christian influences and I've argumented before that there are many religious details to be seen in the VMS.
The specific cross alone is not only a Christian image, for the time period it is also a very specific one: it points exactly to the
Roman Catholic Church.
Then we have the merlons, which are typical Italian as well. If we would combine those two facts we get: Italy + [font=sans-serif]Roman Catholic Church.[/font]
Is there something else we can agree on? Probably, yes. There are the sun and the moon diagrams and pictures (Rosette). From where do they come?
Probably Italy, but from which exact location and would it be very difficult to find out where the typical Voynich sun and moons are coming from exactly?
There were specific places in Italy were scribes were manufactured in the 15th century: Monastic Scribes and Libraries and universities.
Let us concentrate on the Northern Italy region (now Italy & Switzerland & Austria). Find out where those were located.
Find specific scribes and compare the
Sun and Moon diagrams.
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