Zodiac Imagery: Manuscript Collection/Discussion

[eggyk]

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There are a number of calendar + zodiac combinations.

If they are latin calendars, they probably did not go onto the month name list (yet) and so were not in the dataset i'm starting with. Either that or the meta-libraries handschriften portal/census +biblissima/Jonas did not lead to many examples from that library, for some reason. 

Your chart has green-lighted Gemini as being 'twins' on the model of Castor and Pollux, but this is in contrast with the VMs Gemini medallion. Gemini is an example which presents with two different representations. It is either the twins or it is the 'hieros gamos', - the sacred marriage, if you will, the pairing of complementary opposites. The VMs illustration is a heterosexual couple and well clothed - compared to not infrequently when they were depicted as nudes.

VMs Gemini presents the same sort of two-factor selectivity found in VMs Sagittarius. VMs Gemini is heterosexual and clothed; VMs Sagittarius is human with a crossbow.

Though not relevant to the VMs, Capricorn also has different representations. It's either half goat and half fish, or it's just an ibex. Here again both are valid alternatives with different origins.

Green lighted gemini is any symbol that represents gemini. I put "twins" because "twins" helps me remember, and is far shorter than "two people, either twins or spouses or opposites". Same for capricorn, all depictions are green lighted because green just means "is in the manuscript".