Rosette folio detail and cosmological element display
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Apparently there are about 200 surviving versions of this text, manuscripts and early print. It would be interesting to hunt down the diagrams in any of them and map these patterns.

I thought I had found one already, but this is the "angels turning wheel" diagram that first drew my attention, but from another MS
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Angels turning the world on its axis, from Matfres Eymengau de Beziers, Breviari d’amor (BL MS Harley4940, early 14th century):
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RE: Rosette folio detail and cosmological element display - by Koen G - 09-01-2017, 08:25 PM

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