f18v...Dioscorides...something about those leaves

[MarcoP]

That statement could be misleading for those who don't know what it's about (personal opinion, of course). Personally I think that a detail appearing in a 1290 French bestiary, then in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is not much evidence for a line of zodiac images "that originated in France and passed through Alsace and Germany". I see those as possibly independent works and I would be much more cautious. Also, a discussion of the evolution of the zodiac images should be based on an analysis of the whole sequence, in my opinion: we know that there are other details that don't have many parallels.