Exactly right. We cannot say, because we do not know. So, how can we find out? Our source of information can only be from the VMs and from the world of its creation. And that world is middle European and chronologically correspondent with the C-14 dating of the VMs parchment.
The VMs steganographic system is composed of circular bands of text set off by different types of Stolfi's markers. Apparently this methodology is considered too obvious to be taken seriously. That, in itself, is a most excellent bit of trickery.
Why take Stolfi's markers seriously? Because, by the artist's illustration on VMs White Aries, there is a marker that shares a common side with a tub that has a blue-striped pattern.
Paired patterns of bendy argent et azure and red (and white) galeros can be seen, if the relevant history is known. Versus nothing, if it's not. Structure repeatedly reaffirms the illustration's intended identifications. And these papal identifications reaffirm the significance of the markers and - ostensibly - the importance of the associated, circular bands of text.
The VMs steganographic system is composed of circular bands of text set off by different types of Stolfi's markers. Apparently this methodology is considered too obvious to be taken seriously. That, in itself, is a most excellent bit of trickery.
Why take Stolfi's markers seriously? Because, by the artist's illustration on VMs White Aries, there is a marker that shares a common side with a tub that has a blue-striped pattern.
Paired patterns of bendy argent et azure and red (and white) galeros can be seen, if the relevant history is known. Versus nothing, if it's not. Structure repeatedly reaffirms the illustration's intended identifications. And these papal identifications reaffirm the significance of the markers and - ostensibly - the importance of the associated, circular bands of text.