03-06-2020, 11:47 AM
This is the original manuscript: BNF, MS Lat. 7028 - the zodiac circle is on f. 154r. There is a black and white digitisation available on BNFGallica here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The MS was apparently made in what is now central Italy according to the BNF website. The MS is a composite, the sections at the back of the MS have completely different ruling and page spacing (see f. 136r for the most obvious example of this), and different scribes, which implies that when they were made they were either loose booklets of quires, or intended for a different bound codex - this is very normal for medical manuscripts at this time. There is a colophon on f. 133v. I googled the colophon because it looked interesting and it is believed to have been written by antiPope John XVI (d. 1001) for his pupil the young Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (d. 1002), so the first section of the manuscript must have existed before the year 1001. The hands in the later sections look similar in terms of style so I think the whole thing including the diagrams in the later section are unlikely to be much later than c. 1050, but it's difficult to date Italian examples of Carolingian minuscule because the script was much more stable in Italy than it was in north-western Europe so Italian hands can look like that up to 1100 or even a few decades beyond.
The MS was apparently made in what is now central Italy according to the BNF website. The MS is a composite, the sections at the back of the MS have completely different ruling and page spacing (see f. 136r for the most obvious example of this), and different scribes, which implies that when they were made they were either loose booklets of quires, or intended for a different bound codex - this is very normal for medical manuscripts at this time. There is a colophon on f. 133v. I googled the colophon because it looked interesting and it is believed to have been written by antiPope John XVI (d. 1001) for his pupil the young Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (d. 1002), so the first section of the manuscript must have existed before the year 1001. The hands in the later sections look similar in terms of style so I think the whole thing including the diagrams in the later section are unlikely to be much later than c. 1050, but it's difficult to date Italian examples of Carolingian minuscule because the script was much more stable in Italy than it was in north-western Europe so Italian hands can look like that up to 1100 or even a few decades beyond.
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