The prisoner scenario: a though experiment

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A prominent example is Jerome of Prague, who, however, according to his own statements, was not even given anything to read during his imprisonment.

This is actually close to the situation I had in mind. A person who had to improvise an inconspicuous way of creating a manuscript and needed a way to deny his involvement in any writing activity at all while in prison.

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The VMs artist knew these things (and much more). The VMs artist put these things in the illustrations. The VMs artist has been "playing over our heads" the entire time and we have been blithely unaware. These are the first few steps to a better understanding of the VMs.

This all is possible, but works equally well whether the author was a prisoner or not.