What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs?
I have the first two in my files. I didn't include Taurus because of the late date, and because I had other examples that were similar.

The lion has been posted by a couple of people. I don't know if I would call it maneless. The chest is pretty bushy even if the head-hair is sparse. They're claiming it's early 15th century but I don't know... that kind of cross-hatching on the legs is hard to find prior to the 1460s, I have been able to find a few, but they're not easy to find.

The crossbow is a good one, lots of detail for a small drawing, and Cancer is a crayfish. I wonder when they digitized it because I can't find it in my files and I went through the Cgm manuscripts one-by-one many times.

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Edit [addition]: I see now why the dates for Cgm 28 are all over the place. The very first part is old handwriting. Then it changes to later script. It doesn't look like it was all created at the same time.
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RE: What is unique or rare about the VM Zodiac signs? - by -JKP- - 21-09-2018, 12:51 PM

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