Zodiac Imagery: Manuscript Collection/Discussion

[eggyk]

Maybe if she's still working on it, you could offer your services @eggyk

Haha, the folks at Handschriften Census already get the occasional message from me saying "Hello, this Manuscript actually is digitised here" so that they can add the digitisation links 

I have certainly mined through a lot of the saxl project and warburg institute, but almost certainly not every single thing yet. 

This is very interesting. I wonder how many manuscripts survive with this kind of imagery.

If you mean aquarius specifically, that pose along with the double container is a common depiction. Often he is standing knee deep in a river or pool of water, and sometimes he is depicted near a well (or the depiction is just a well) but this is the first time i've seen him stand in a well. I checked through all my files and didn't find a single other example  

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Also, curse whoever made the search function on the Valencia University site. Every single thing seems to be digitised, but every single thing displays as not digitised and has no links to the digitisation. I have to copy and paste titles one by one into another library page in order to get the images. But the other library doesn't allow you to search for all manuscripts, only exact strings. "Brevarium" - nothing, "[Brevarium Romanum]" - results.   

Spain really seems far behind other european countries in this regard. Instead of a shared platform of some kind everyone just does it their own way. It's a big reason we don't have more spanish entries in general.