The Normandy/Paris and Augsburg-region clusters also show up prominently when one does a combination-search for leg-tail Leo+crayfish Cancer+no-figure Libra.
This specific search seems to entirely exclude England and the Italian states. There is one that may be from Lombardy near the Veneto, but the origin is not certain, and one that is even less certain thought to be from Provençe (but some historians think maybe Paris).
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I have tried hard to find examples from Spain, southern Italy, and eastern Europe that might fit into this combination-search, I didn't want to overlook anything, but the Spanish ones are mostly traditional classical styles (and frequently use a crab rather than crayfish). There are a couple with crayfish from St. Maria Rivipulli (NE Spain) and Catalonia, but the Libra scales are held by a classical figure. Another from Catalonia has a no-figure Libra, but Cancer is a crab. The Spanish zodiacs rarely have leg-tail lions (there is an 11th-century leg-tail basilica frieze in Léon but some of the tiles are later replacements). England also leaned toward using a crab.
It becomes clear after doing a number of these maps and combination searches for zodiac imagery that there was a great deal of cross-pollination between Paris and central Europe. I think this may be because there was quite a bit of communication between scholars who attended the University of Paris and the University of Heidelberg (and the University of Heidelberg, in turn, was in regular communication with Munich and Prague) and scholars were more likely to visit libraries and carry around books.
This specific search seems to entirely exclude England and the Italian states. There is one that may be from Lombardy near the Veneto, but the origin is not certain, and one that is even less certain thought to be from Provençe (but some historians think maybe Paris).
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I have tried hard to find examples from Spain, southern Italy, and eastern Europe that might fit into this combination-search, I didn't want to overlook anything, but the Spanish ones are mostly traditional classical styles (and frequently use a crab rather than crayfish). There are a couple with crayfish from St. Maria Rivipulli (NE Spain) and Catalonia, but the Libra scales are held by a classical figure. Another from Catalonia has a no-figure Libra, but Cancer is a crab. The Spanish zodiacs rarely have leg-tail lions (there is an 11th-century leg-tail basilica frieze in Léon but some of the tiles are later replacements). England also leaned toward using a crab.
It becomes clear after doing a number of these maps and combination searches for zodiac imagery that there was a great deal of cross-pollination between Paris and central Europe. I think this may be because there was quite a bit of communication between scholars who attended the University of Paris and the University of Heidelberg (and the University of Heidelberg, in turn, was in regular communication with Munich and Prague) and scholars were more likely to visit libraries and carry around books.
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