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Oxford, Bodleian MS Bodley 614, fol. 24r
A heavily-illustrated, twelfth century English manuscript most famous for containing a Latin version of "The Wonders of the East."
It is associated with London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, although it is hard to tell whether the Tiberius is the direct parent or a distant grandparent of 614.
This is a complicated illustration involving six different constellations: Top, left: Bootes/Arctophilax. a man holding a curved club, hand outstretched, other hand extended. Top middle/right: a serpent curling around two other beasts, representing Draco/Serpens curling between Ursa Major (helyce) and Ursa Mino (cynosure). They are bounded by a roundel with an ochre background, stars in gold. Bottom right: a woman holding a staff in her right hand and a wheel bordered in stars in her left. (Corona borealis? The legend is about woman loved by bacchus and Theseus gets involved.)
Oxford, Bodleian MS Bodley 614, fol. 24r
A heavily-illustrated, twelfth century English manuscript most famous for containing a Latin version of "The Wonders of the East."
It is associated with London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. v, although it is hard to tell whether the Tiberius is the direct parent or a distant grandparent of 614.
This is a complicated illustration involving six different constellations: Top, left: Bootes/Arctophilax. a man holding a curved club, hand outstretched, other hand extended. Top middle/right: a serpent curling around two other beasts, representing Draco/Serpens curling between Ursa Major (helyce) and Ursa Mino (cynosure). They are bounded by a roundel with an ochre background, stars in gold. Bottom right: a woman holding a staff in her right hand and a wheel bordered in stars in her left. (Corona borealis? The legend is about woman loved by bacchus and Theseus gets involved.)