Zodiac Imagery: Manuscript Collection/Discussion

[eggyk]

So, a couple of REALLY interesting manuscripts from the 11th(!) century here. 

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1026-1028AD
France N, Chartres

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1007AD
France, Orléans

The chartres sequence is a direct copy of the 1007AD manuscript. On top of this, the zodiac depictions are under the same months as the marginalia in the VMS: Pisces in march, Aries in april etc etc. 

These examples demonstrate perfectly how somebody copying something can change certain details, but keep others (the bottom is the original)

               
               
           

Firstly, check out those long sleeves and those square top libra scales. Secondly, look at the dewclaws and feet on taurus:

   

Other things of note as well:
The omission of a person carrying the scales in the copied version of libra, but a copying of the scale style,
The faces of pisces changing, 
The curve of the horns of aries are slightly different. 

Now, as for relevance in the VMS. Is it possible a manuscript like this -or a copy- could have existed and been copied in the 14th and 15th centuries? Clearly these two examples were around somewhere, as they survive to today. If the VMS shows a resemblance to a later copy of this work, could that explain why someone may have recognised the sequence, and wrote the intended months of the work in as marginalia?