Who is the target audience? It is the cognoscenti. It is a select group of educated persons who know what the VMs creator knows. The author either writes from their own 'social media' environs, or they pretend to be someone else. The question is whether the intent was to inform or to do something else? And what else that might be?
Straight away there's the problem of authenticity? Authentic of what? Despite the potential appearance as a "normal" text from an exotic culture, that possibility is greatly minimized in the modern perspective. The VMs is not authentic, it is artificial. It is superficial in that it presents an exotic façade that disguises the presence of knowledge of real cultural, traditional, and 'social media' information, leading up to a date in the mid to late 1430s connected with the Duchy of Burgundy.
The target audience can fathom the depths of the VMs cosmos, can name the "generic" VMs mermaid, knows the tradition of the cardinal's red galero, and knows who is missing from the double rainbow throne. The target audience must include some that get caught in the papelonny pun, and who may even have seen the structure of the Agnus Dei image in the Apocalypse of S Jean (BNF Fr. 13096).
Straight away there's the problem of authenticity? Authentic of what? Despite the potential appearance as a "normal" text from an exotic culture, that possibility is greatly minimized in the modern perspective. The VMs is not authentic, it is artificial. It is superficial in that it presents an exotic façade that disguises the presence of knowledge of real cultural, traditional, and 'social media' information, leading up to a date in the mid to late 1430s connected with the Duchy of Burgundy.
The target audience can fathom the depths of the VMs cosmos, can name the "generic" VMs mermaid, knows the tradition of the cardinal's red galero, and knows who is missing from the double rainbow throne. The target audience must include some that get caught in the papelonny pun, and who may even have seen the structure of the Agnus Dei image in the Apocalypse of S Jean (BNF Fr. 13096).