• There rises in the first face of Aries a man with red eyes who is looking forward. In the image, one sees black eyes looking to one side (red paint was available but wasn't used). He's the only figure who doesn't look like he's looking front.
  
• He is described as making broad gestures but the illustration has his arms simply hanging at his side.
  
• His great white cape/cloak is tied around him with a rope. That suggests to me that the cloak is tied at the waist by a rope (or maybe at the neck), but the illustration seems to indicate otherwise. It shows it hanging free, supported only by a rope around his head (which is unlikely to work in real life with a cloak of that weight and size, head-ropes were typically for short hat-like cloths that don't weigh so much and are less likely to be pulled off). I'm not even sure the rope is tied to the cape, it looks like the cape is on his shoulders and the rope is tied around his hair.
  
• He is supposed to be standing on one foot. This could have been drawn better, it looks like he's missing a foot, but maybe the person didn't know how to draw that.
  

• In the second face of Aries is a woman in red garments wearing a cloak, with a face like a horse, very angry (in eastern astrology sometimes a horse rather than a woman is used). This woman is no more horse-like than the other figures and does not appear angry, she has a small smile. She has only one leg, but it almost looks like she has two and is standing on one of them.
  

• In the third face of Aries is a red and white man with red hair (his hair is less red than the "white" cloaks of the two other characters and it looks like the red was used to indicate a shadow rather than the color of the hair since there's only the tiniest bit brushed across the top). He is supposed to have a sword in his right hand and a staff in his left. That's obviously not a staff on the left, it looks more like a lumpy sack full of something. He is said to be clad in red garments. So, the man is red and white with red hair (this actually reminded me of a friend who has pale skin and a lot of red freckles who has very red hair). In the drawing, the tunic is not red, it is red and white, and the man is not red and white, he's white. I don't think the bit of red on his cheek counts because the other two figures have more red on their cheeks than on the one on the right.
  

(07-07-2017, 09:27 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

• In the third face of Aries ... He is supposed to have a sword in his right hand and a staff in his left. That's obviously not a staff on the left, it looks more like a lumpy sack full of something. He is said to be clad in red garments.
  

(09-07-2017, 09:49 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That's interesting, Marco. So that sack-like thing in his hand might be red garments (I would never have guessed), which would match more closely to the Arabic version than to the text that actually accompanies the drawing.

(09-07-2017, 10:03 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Interesting indeed. Might this indicate that this drawing actually accompanied an earlier version of the text? As I mentioned on JKP's blog, there is a clear Jewish influence in them  - see Beth Alpha mosaics.

(09-07-2017, 09:40 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....

In Krakow Picatrix f.193, the ch.11 third Aries decan holds a single weird object, that includes a ring. But no sword.

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it strikes me that the handwriting of BNF Lat 10272 is rather similar to the reconstructed handwriting in a recent blog post by JKP:...