Why does heraldry fail?

[Koen G]

R. Sale:

I posted the snake to show that some patterns even occur in nature. We see the same in the VM, in fact, where the bulbous line is used in a number of leaf edges.

To get back to the purpose of this thread. I believe your question was: why don't we give heraldry a chance to try to understand the manuscript?

I feel like there is just not enough to go on.

• A very limited set of folios.
  
• A small set of patterns.
  
• Many of those are not exactly the heraldic version.
  
• As Sam pointed out, there are a number of other problems as well, like a crucial figure being female.
  
• Little evidence in the rest of the manuscript that points towards heraldry, and some things, like the abundance of plants and naked women, what make one wonder why there would be an exposition on heraldry in the same manuscript.
  
• The fact that even the more complex patterns can be explained in another way.
  
• The fact that you have been studying the possible presence of heraldry for quite some time now, but haven't made much progress either. 
  

Basically your proposition sounds to me like: "guys, if we ignore all these things, what is left looks a bit like heraldry". I believe that is why people have a hard time going along in the story...