What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs?

[Koen G]

Marco, thanks for this wealth of information. I will try to integrate them into the topic when I have more time.

Some questions: 

• Do I understand it correctly that the idle crossbowman is a type that's only attested in later documents than the VM? In that case it seems worth adding this to the notes for Sagittarius. 
  
• I agree with your objection that we shouldn't combine too many variables into one, but I don't think combining two features is exaggerated. Male+female and clothed/nude are two of the most important Gemini properties. If you combine them, you divide the entire set of Geminis into four major groups. If it then turns out, like JKP reports, that the VM's group is the rarest (or the most common, or...) this information seems valuable. 
  
• About 'who said what', this information can be added as we go along. I've just been adding the names of the person who reported the trait or who found the parallel, to my best knowledge. Generally I don't want to spend too much time on this since managing the contents of the thread already takes a chunk out of my spare time. I've already asked a handful of people whether they want to help out with this thread and any similar ones but so far there has only been understandable hesitation
  
• The Aries looking goatlike: would you consider this "rare" or just notable?