20-12-2023, 01:31 AM
For what it's worth, here are some examples of asterisk stars from this website devoted to medieval arms and armor.
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Most of the sources for asterisk stars are after c. 1400. Earlier artists treated backgrounds in several different ways, but the use of stars wasn't one of them. Then in the first quarter (1400-1425) there is a proliferation of manuscripts from Paris.
Paris was the provenance source for the cosmic illustrations in BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334, both of which have asterisk stars.
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Most of the sources for asterisk stars are after c. 1400. Earlier artists treated backgrounds in several different ways, but the use of stars wasn't one of them. Then in the first quarter (1400-1425) there is a proliferation of manuscripts from Paris.
Paris was the provenance source for the cosmic illustrations in BNF Fr. 565 and Harley 334, both of which have asterisk stars.