08-05-2016, 08:52 AM
I wonder if the nymphs on top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be the constellations of Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda. They were all placed in the sky as a punishment: Cepheus as a fish, Cassiopeia chained to her throne with her arms spread, and Andromeda chained to a rock in the waves.
Later MSS depict them differently, but yesterday by coincidence I came across Revised Aratus Latinus, which depicts them in a way that reminded me of these nymphs. Especially the correspondence between the middle nymph and Cassiopeia is striking. The nymph to her right, which should be Andromeda, is also standing in wavy water.
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DATE
809
LOCATION
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France → Nouv. acq. lat. 1614, fol. 86v-87r
TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT
Revised Aratus Latinus
A very interesting depiction can be seen here as well, in another version of this text: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
What is interesting, is that this latter manuscript does something very Voynich-like: it gives the figures a small base to stand on, indicating their environment. Cetus and Andromeda get water, Cassiopeia gets a palace platform.
I'm not an expert in astrological matters so I wonder if it could be possible.
Later MSS depict them differently, but yesterday by coincidence I came across Revised Aratus Latinus, which depicts them in a way that reminded me of these nymphs. Especially the correspondence between the middle nymph and Cassiopeia is striking. The nymph to her right, which should be Andromeda, is also standing in wavy water.
DATE
809
LOCATION
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France → Nouv. acq. lat. 1614, fol. 86v-87r
TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT
Revised Aratus Latinus
A very interesting depiction can be seen here as well, in another version of this text: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
What is interesting, is that this latter manuscript does something very Voynich-like: it gives the figures a small base to stand on, indicating their environment. Cetus and Andromeda get water, Cassiopeia gets a palace platform.
I'm not an expert in astrological matters so I wonder if it could be possible.
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