There's an interesting turn, I began to read the latin text here (f76r):
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And it appears that those are not pipes, but nails
O quam pulchrum stema tenet clavorum positio
crucis Christi rote fixi hoc inoro logio
in qua ipse carne pendens pro salute hominum
And all the text is like the verse, probably for ease of memorization.
Now, remember that VMBOK discussion about the alleged absence of Christian symbolism in the VMS? If that were approved, we would have been deceived by the awkwardness of medieval authors in depicting nails.
And, being nails, it is of course clear why they are of different length. (Alternation is for sheer symmetry, I suppose.)
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And it appears that those are not pipes, but nails
O quam pulchrum stema tenet clavorum positio
crucis Christi rote fixi hoc inoro logio
in qua ipse carne pendens pro salute hominum
And all the text is like the verse, probably for ease of memorization.
Now, remember that VMBOK discussion about the alleged absence of Christian symbolism in the VMS? If that were approved, we would have been deceived by the awkwardness of medieval authors in depicting nails.
And, being nails, it is of course clear why they are of different length. (Alternation is for sheer symmetry, I suppose.)