Thank you Marco, I don't remember having seen those examples on Stephen's site.
In the other MSS Darren posted, the figures are holding large spheres representing their planets, but only in MS Yates Thompson 31 they become VM-like. This MS is from the late 14th century, which makes it even more relevant.
It's interesting that many of the figures are holding their stars (Gr. aster) like one would hold a flower. And indeed if you look at the decorations on the whole page, there is a flowery theme. The figures' backgrounds, a deep blue, play on the similarity between a field of stars and a field of flowers.
Normal stars are the "fixed stars", they don't move in relation to one another. The planets (which included Sun and Moon), however, were called the "wandering stars", since they move in relation to the rest.
This becomes quite obvious in three of the men. They look like ones who have snatched a flower from the field of the sky (blue background) and are carrying it along.
In this context, it might be of importance that so many of the star-nymphs are in implied motion, while others (the barreled ones) must be stationary.
In the other MSS Darren posted, the figures are holding large spheres representing their planets, but only in MS Yates Thompson 31 they become VM-like. This MS is from the late 14th century, which makes it even more relevant.
It's interesting that many of the figures are holding their stars (Gr. aster) like one would hold a flower. And indeed if you look at the decorations on the whole page, there is a flowery theme. The figures' backgrounds, a deep blue, play on the similarity between a field of stars and a field of flowers.
Normal stars are the "fixed stars", they don't move in relation to one another. The planets (which included Sun and Moon), however, were called the "wandering stars", since they move in relation to the rest.
This becomes quite obvious in three of the men. They look like ones who have snatched a flower from the field of the sky (blue background) and are carrying it along.
In this context, it might be of importance that so many of the star-nymphs are in implied motion, while others (the barreled ones) must be stationary.
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