What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs?

[Koen G]

This handwriting and the Latin is relatively readable. On the preceding page, it says that this is the image for the star "Cor Scorpionis", which is two scorpions of which one is missing the tail. So these are not depictions of the Signs or constellations, but rather images for individual stars. So unless I'm mistaken, this has nothing to do with the Arab habit of showing a constellation and its mirror image, as was suggested on the mailing list.


"Cor Scorpionis, called ilcalb, is a red star in between two [less bright ones?]. Its image are two scorpions of which one has no tail."


(Latin experts may of  course correct me on this )


Edit: this is interesting though. The images actually includes the "red star in between two others". Might this mean that Zodiac imagery which includes a single star, like many in the VM do, is actually gained from a source which describes images for individual stars? Most of the pictures in this particular MS do include more stars than one though.