Sorry I'm not very good with historical books and maybe you already know this one but I found this book from "Bonaccorso Ghiberti" in 15th century. It has engineering diagrams, but it's interesting because it is written in cypher text. Here some images from internet:
There are also columns/pillars designs like Mariani and Taccola (from the other thread), that look like containers in Voynich manuscipt.
EDIT: I found full scan of book, here:
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Maybe you can look if there are more similarities with Voynich manuscript?