Hopefully you've had a chance to read the article about the early printings of Sacrobosco in Leipzig during the fourth quarter of the 1400s in Post #54. While it has a lot to say about the different editions, it mentions the specifics of the zodiac illustrations only briefly, but they are visually obvious in Fig. 2.
While Paris and Venice printed standard versions of Sacrobosco's cosmos, Leipzig went another way. The 1488 edition by Landsberg has undergone a code shift. It does not use the astrological symbols of the seven planets. It does not use the pictorial representations of the four elements. It does not have a zodiac ring. The cosmic diagram consists of words to name the different planetary spheres. Switching from pictorial depiction to written language is a code shift.
In 1488, the Leipzig cosmos had no astrological connections, but the 1494 Leipzig cosmos is full of them. It is the same cosmos to which a number of things have been added, ostensibly due to the influences of Wenzel Faber. The central, empty 'sphere of elements' is all but unique to the Leipzig cosmos. Other examples may use linguistic designations, but they still list the four elements in their spheres. The Leipzig cosmos no longer designates the elements individually.
What has been added in the 1494 cosmic diagram is a zodiac ring. The use of astrological symbols for the seven planets is also instituted. But the symbols are not stacked in the standard position. They are positioned at certain places in their respective rings. Other illustrations have shown this with different versions - often this takes the form of a spiral pattern.
Additionally, there is another astrological factor, and that is the identification of the particular planet with its traditional zodiac sign(s). Spiral patterns don't really aspire to good astrological connections. So far, the Leipzig cosmos appears to be the earliest, extant 'historical' representative of a 4-1-1-1 pattern. The presence of this same pattern in the VMs is either a chance occurrence or something like a fingerprint.
The illustrations from Johannis de Brunswic also have a certain familiarity about them. The list or sources from which the VMs artist seems to have "borrowed" continues to grow. His diagram of the cosmos simply names the planets, yet the four elements are still pictorial.
While Paris and Venice printed standard versions of Sacrobosco's cosmos, Leipzig went another way. The 1488 edition by Landsberg has undergone a code shift. It does not use the astrological symbols of the seven planets. It does not use the pictorial representations of the four elements. It does not have a zodiac ring. The cosmic diagram consists of words to name the different planetary spheres. Switching from pictorial depiction to written language is a code shift.
In 1488, the Leipzig cosmos had no astrological connections, but the 1494 Leipzig cosmos is full of them. It is the same cosmos to which a number of things have been added, ostensibly due to the influences of Wenzel Faber. The central, empty 'sphere of elements' is all but unique to the Leipzig cosmos. Other examples may use linguistic designations, but they still list the four elements in their spheres. The Leipzig cosmos no longer designates the elements individually.
What has been added in the 1494 cosmic diagram is a zodiac ring. The use of astrological symbols for the seven planets is also instituted. But the symbols are not stacked in the standard position. They are positioned at certain places in their respective rings. Other illustrations have shown this with different versions - often this takes the form of a spiral pattern.
Additionally, there is another astrological factor, and that is the identification of the particular planet with its traditional zodiac sign(s). Spiral patterns don't really aspire to good astrological connections. So far, the Leipzig cosmos appears to be the earliest, extant 'historical' representative of a 4-1-1-1 pattern. The presence of this same pattern in the VMs is either a chance occurrence or something like a fingerprint.
The illustrations from Johannis de Brunswic also have a certain familiarity about them. The list or sources from which the VMs artist seems to have "borrowed" continues to grow. His diagram of the cosmos simply names the planets, yet the four elements are still pictorial.
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