Absolutely.
Koen's presentation showed the inordinate use of blue paint in the botanical pages and also discovered the high prevalence of 'white' flowers.
Blue and 'white' are excessively represented. It's a simple fact. And the equivalent heraldic terminology, azure for blue, and argent for silver, (often represented as white [unpainted]) would have been widely known in the European Middle Ages (with linguistic variations).
Color combinations (tinctures) are only part of the representation of heraldic shields. The other part is pattern, as the multiple examples clearly show. What patterns does the VMs present? Koen found flowers with alternating blue and white petals. Alternating bands of tincture make several common heraldic patterns, and these patterns are variously designated according to their orientation.
Looking at VMs White Aries, there are two tubs painted with blue stripes. What is their orientation? Should they be interpreted from a radial perspective? What happens if the radial perspective is removed of ignored? The orientation changes. This creates a dualistic representation. There are two ways to interpret the orientation of the stripes built into the illustration.
On the left side of the inner circle of nymphs on White Aries, there is a nymph in a blue-striped tub with a large reddish hat. For those sufficiently familiar with church history, blue stripes and a red galero might be suggestive of the historical origins of the tradition of the cardinal's hat.
Of the many argent et azure patterns provided, only 'Bendy, argent et azure', the Fieschi armorial insignia, is associated with this ecclesiastical tradition, both as pope and as cardinal, historically confirmed and also supported by structural factors in the illustration.
Koen's presentation showed the inordinate use of blue paint in the botanical pages and also discovered the high prevalence of 'white' flowers.
Blue and 'white' are excessively represented. It's a simple fact. And the equivalent heraldic terminology, azure for blue, and argent for silver, (often represented as white [unpainted]) would have been widely known in the European Middle Ages (with linguistic variations).
Color combinations (tinctures) are only part of the representation of heraldic shields. The other part is pattern, as the multiple examples clearly show. What patterns does the VMs present? Koen found flowers with alternating blue and white petals. Alternating bands of tincture make several common heraldic patterns, and these patterns are variously designated according to their orientation.
Looking at VMs White Aries, there are two tubs painted with blue stripes. What is their orientation? Should they be interpreted from a radial perspective? What happens if the radial perspective is removed of ignored? The orientation changes. This creates a dualistic representation. There are two ways to interpret the orientation of the stripes built into the illustration.
On the left side of the inner circle of nymphs on White Aries, there is a nymph in a blue-striped tub with a large reddish hat. For those sufficiently familiar with church history, blue stripes and a red galero might be suggestive of the historical origins of the tradition of the cardinal's hat.
Of the many argent et azure patterns provided, only 'Bendy, argent et azure', the Fieschi armorial insignia, is associated with this ecclesiastical tradition, both as pope and as cardinal, historically confirmed and also supported by structural factors in the illustration.