(05-07-2017, 03:56 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco, do you remember reading sonething about the separate illustration in the middle of the manuscript? It's the one with the three really weird figures, including this guy:
They are drawn in a different style than all the illustrations at the end..
Hi Koen,
I haven't read anything specific. These figures are certainly in a less skilled hand than the figures at the end. I guess they might have been drawn by the scribe himself.
A transcription of the Latin text is available at the Warburg institute site.
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The corresponding text is titled (in red)
Capitulum secundum. De figuris celi et earum secretis.
Second chapter. About heavenly images and their secrets.
Ascensiones figurarum celi sunt duobus modis, quorum unus est 48 formarum ex stellis figuratarum. ..
Secundus modus est figurarum celi estimatarum secundum opinionem Indorum [Judeorum?]. qui in eis taliter sunt locuti: quod ascendit in prima facie Arietis homo habens oculos rubeos magnamque barbam et portans lineum album convolutum, faciens gestus magnos in incessu sicut coopertus magna clamide alba ac fune precinctus, stans in uno pede ac si aspiceret quod tenet ante se. Et ascendit in 2 facie Arietis mulier clamide cooperta linea, rubeis vestibus induta, unum tantum habens pedem; et in sui figura est similis equo, habens in animo iram. et querit vestimenta. ornamenta ac filium. Et ascendit in 3 facie Arietis homo colore alba et rubeo. capillos rubeos habens, iratus et inquietus, habens in dextra ensem et in sinistra perticam, vestibus rubeis indutus; et est doctus et perfectus magister laborandi ferrum, et cupiens facere bonum, et non potest.
Rough translation:
There are two kinds of heavenly images rising in the sky. One is the 48 images formed by the stars. [I guess these must be the Ptolemaic constellations] ...
The second kind is the heavenly images according to the opinion of the Indians [of the Jews?] which describe them in this way: in the first face of Aries rises a man with red eyes, and a great beard, wearing a dress of white flax, making wide gestures, as if wearing a great white mantle, wearing a rope at his waist. He stands on one foot, as if observing something in from of himself. In the second face of Aries rises a woman wearing a cloak made of flax, covered in a red dress, having a single foot. Her figure is like a horse. She has anger in her soul, she wants dresses, jewels and a son. In the third face rises a man of red and white colour, with red hair, angry and troubled, having a sword in his right hand and a pole in the left hand, wrapped in red cloth. He is a perfectly learned master of iron works; he wants to do good and cannot.
These figures are the three decans of Aries, very famously illustrated in You are not allowed to view links.
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In the Krakow ms I read Judeorum rather than Indorum, but the original reference was certainly to the Indians (see Warburg's 1912 paper ‘Italian Art and International Astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara’).