What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs?
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Out of 500+ zodiac series (the reason I don't give the exact number, which is around 520, is because I am always searching for more, and because a few of the cycles are incomplete, some of the manuscripts are missing pages and others have been defaced, with some of the zodiac symbols cut out):

Typical or common:
Pisces facing in opposite directions: 95%
Pisces with a line coming from the mouth: 83%

Uncommon or unusual:
Pisces with distinctively long noses: 8%
Blue Pisces: 12% (most are shades of gray or brown/buff)
Pisces with the line outside the fish instead of between them, unique to the VMS, as far as I know except for one where the line is between but also extends a short way beyond the mouth to the outside (not really like the VMS) and a few in the Aratus tradition where the line is an S-shape, both inside and outside the fish (e.g., eCodices Cod. 88 Aratus and Leiden VLQ 79).
Pisces with a star attached to the line, unique to the VMS, as far as I know.




Some addendums:

Addition to the sharp-tongue lion. I just noticed the tongue on Egerton 848 is also pretty sharp.

The Leo in Ms. Lat. 7028 has the tail through the leg, sticking straight up, and a front paw raised. Also spots along the back.


Germ.Fol.244 Taurus has long curved horns (reverse lyre-shaped).
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RE: What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs? - by -JKP- - 09-12-2017, 08:18 PM

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