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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I think it is very important to recognize that the Rosettes page is a representation of the medieval cosmos. In the upper right corner we see a map of the Earth, (T and O map), which is the image, although small, that gives meaning to everything else.

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Representations of the medieval cosmos with a T and O map are frequent, as in the Oresme sphere treatise.

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Or even in T-O schematic images like this one in which the small circles on the outer sphere represent the stars.

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The castle that we see on the Rosettes page also has, although few, equivalents at the time. It was a way to represent the place where the book was made.

In the treatise on astrology preserved by the National Library of Spain, contemporary with the VM, there are two images of castles in cosmological diagrams. They can be seen on pages 32 and 108 of the digitization. They represent the place where the book was made.

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