Ironically, I have several of the Man of Sorrows manuscripts in my files but i never connected the pole-rope with the VMS. Well, maybe the shape, but not the idea that there might be a direct connection.
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Edit [addition]: I just looked at the images again and many of the earlier ones that have helical twining are from France and Flanders, which is the same region where some of the zodiac illustrative subgroups that are similar to the VMS and which appear to have influenced those in western Germany/Alsace may have originated.
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Edit [addition]: I just looked at the images again and many of the earlier ones that have helical twining are from France and Flanders, which is the same region where some of the zodiac illustrative subgroups that are similar to the VMS and which appear to have influenced those in western Germany/Alsace may have originated.

