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I moved the goat-sheep posts over here. Can someone fill me in on the dewclaw discussion? Is the idea that goats have more pronounced dewclaws than sheep? The green creature appears to have some serious talons there.

I haven't read any previous dew claw discussions, so I don't know where people stand on this, but I glanced through my images of non-zodiac sheep and immediately found many with significant "dew claw" bumps on sheep drawings. Sorry, I can't post all the sources right (it's an extremely busy time of year business-wise).



Also, glancing through zodiac-symbol Aries, there are more:

If you look closely at Cod. Pal. Germ. 291 (which has several similarities to the VMS), the "dew claw" is drawn with the same dark point as the hoofs.

Note also, in this manuscript: long-nosed double-dorsal Pisces, crayfish Cancer, leg-tail tongue Leo, sitting Virgo, no-figure Libra, and crossbowman. Yes, it's later (c. 1480), but one of the closer matches to the VMS zodiac symbols in terms of details.


More examples of dew-claw Aries:

• Walters MS W.26
  
• KB 72 A 23 Liber Floridus
  
• horselike ram with long neck and dew claws BAV MS Reg. Lat. 438
  
• Lansdowne MS 383 Shaftesbury Psalter (small and hard to see, but two legs have dew claws)
  
• BL Additional 22413 (pointy dew claws)
  
• Arundel 60 Psalter (rounded prominent dew claws)
  
• BSB Clm 13076, [S.l.], 1356 [BSB-Hss Clm 13076]  (rounded bumps)
  
• iluminado por Joseph Asarfati (c. 1300) (rounded bumps)
  
• Add MS 54179 (rounded bumps)
  
• Graz MS.286 (small but pointy dew claws, browsing, hugging couple, long-nosed fish, no-hand libra, human archer)
  
• Walters W.90 (pointy, but not quite as claw-like as some of the others)
  
• Walters W.196 (rounded bumps)
  
• Walters W.734 (prominent pointy dew claws and long horse-like neck)
  
• Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus 1982 (rounded bump)
  
• BNF Ms. Lat. 7028 (semi-pointy bumps)
  
• Trinity B-11-5 (prominent bumps)
  

That's not all of them, just a selection. In total, Aries with prominent bumps or pointy dew claws comprise about 6% of zodiacs in general. Uncommon but not rare.