Discussion of the Konstellations

[Linda]

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 This Boulogne manuscript is a decent copy of the Leiden Aratea or a common ancestor. Unfortunately the Virgo folio from the Leiden Aratea is missing, but we know it would have looked much like this. It is known that these manuscripts, like most or even all medieval Aratea manuscripts, go back on older sources. The Leiden Aratea is believed to have been copied from a fourth century manuscript (see Marion Dolan's work), which is just awesome.

the Boulogne 188 and Bern 88, which followed the Boulogne version's corrections about a century later, came from a common ancestor, or else the Boulogne version had an addition from another source, as both contain text that the original version of Leiden didn't, it was updated a few centuries later to include those lines. All three contain similarities in their art, although as you say the Leiden Virgo is lost. Bern 88 has the roll on the head too, timing of that one is about 1000 years ago, but probably based on the original Leiden art from at least 150 years earlier, which could also have been copied from an older source.

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