16-03-2021, 06:51 PM
Thanks for all the great views. Now, the question is, what is there to be seen? And not to look at it so much from a modern analytical perspective, rather to try, to the extent possible, to see the illustration from the perspective of a person contemporary with the C-14 dates.
It must be acknowledged that the VMs creator(s) had an 'interesting' set of skills and talents. That such a person may or must have been well-educated. That much of education at this time was still the province of the Catholic church. And much of history also included the history of the church.
If such a person - or a person with some of the equivalent knowledge - looks at the White Aries illustration, then is there something to be recognized by the benefit of this knowledge, that would not be discovered otherwise? Does a person knowing the origins and heraldry of the cardinal's red galero in church tradition, on examining the 'nymphs' of the White Aries page, fail to respond to the Genoese gambit hidden in the illustration? One has to wonder what is going on with the red hats and blue stripes, and a bit of focused investigation helps to clear things up. The disguise in intentional. Therefore, deception is intentional.
It must be acknowledged that the VMs creator(s) had an 'interesting' set of skills and talents. That such a person may or must have been well-educated. That much of education at this time was still the province of the Catholic church. And much of history also included the history of the church.
If such a person - or a person with some of the equivalent knowledge - looks at the White Aries illustration, then is there something to be recognized by the benefit of this knowledge, that would not be discovered otherwise? Does a person knowing the origins and heraldry of the cardinal's red galero in church tradition, on examining the 'nymphs' of the White Aries page, fail to respond to the Genoese gambit hidden in the illustration? One has to wonder what is going on with the red hats and blue stripes, and a bit of focused investigation helps to clear things up. The disguise in intentional. Therefore, deception is intentional.