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RE: Examples of connected dots?
bi3mw > 07-03-2022, 03:08 PM
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RE: Examples of connected dots?
RenegadeHealer > 07-03-2022, 10:22 PM
I see several old familiar friends on that page and the following one, bi3mw. The earliest specimens of the Sefer Ratziel ha-Malakh definitely predate the most likely dates of the VMS’s composition, though not by a lot.
Were Kabbalah-related works in much circulation beyond Jewish intellectual and esoteric circles in the late Middle Ages? I know knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic was present among many well-educated Europeans who were not Jewish, especially for the purpose of going to the original texts of Biblical books. -
RE: Examples of connected dots?
bi3mw > 08-03-2022, 08:26 AM
(07-03-2022, 10:22 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Were Kabbalah-related works in much circulation beyond Jewish intellectual and esoteric circles in the late Middle Ages?
At least as far as this book is concerned:
Quote:Early humanists, such as Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516) and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), used the Sefer Raziel as an extensive source of quotations for their works. Nikolaus von Kues (1401-1464), Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), and Guillaume Postel (1510-1581) were also familiar with this book.
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RE: Examples of connected dots?
Stefan Wirtz_2 > 19-01-2026, 04:07 PM
I pick up some previous images here
![[Image: 9216567a4a107ac9c7c721e20bb650a4.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/92/16/56/9216567a4a107ac9c7c721e20bb650a4.jpg)
![[Image: 8ce64415e4e518bc541ee973a5c502b6.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/8c/e6/44/8ce64415e4e518bc541ee973a5c502b6.jpg)
and add this one:
![[Image: e27adda89196799b2845056d95131065.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/e2/7a/dd/e27adda89196799b2845056d95131065.jpg)
That last one is from "Computus Nurembergensis" of ~1493, a bit younger than VMS.
Most interesting is the variant of showing Taurus (and capricorn) astronomical symbols.
For a span of at least 300 years, also covering VMS era, there was a tradition to show simplified actual star constellations - which shifted positions a bit in 15th century, at least in Cod.Nur.
Taking the writing directing and orientation:
![[Image: e9f1d2f9761c97c6ada107d121dbfec7.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/e9/f1/d2/e9f1d2f9761c97c6ada107d121dbfec7.jpg)
This does not remind of any astrological, cabbalistic or occult content, but more of theconstellation itself:
![[Image: TaurusCC.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/TaurusCC.jpg)
Could as well be "Taurus".
I don't know which position the sheet with this vignette has in the VMS when to whole map is folded, but it appears to be an "entrance" or labelling function for the complete Map --at latest, if it is positioned as the "top tip" like mentioned before in my regarding thread.
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RE: Examples of connected dots?
Antonio García Jiménez > 19-01-2026, 05:33 PM
I'm going to try to explain the so-called Rosettes clock that you showed earlier.
We see a double circle with lines inserted within it. The lines are arranged in eight groups around the sphere. Each line represents 15 degrees, which is how far the Earth (the universe in medieval times) rotates in one hour. Therefore, if we count all the lines, we see that they add up to 360 degrees, or 24 hours.
The inner triangle we see with dots at the vertices is the same triangle with little heads that we see in the upper left corner of f67v2, the folio where the astrological aspects are represented.
The triangle is the trine aspect, which is formed when the sun and moon form a 120-degree angle. What we see on the Rosettes clock is the sun and two moons because the 120 degrees are represented in both hemispheres. -
RE: Examples of connected dots?
DG97EEB > 19-01-2026, 05:57 PM
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RE: Examples of connected dots?
Stefan Wirtz_2 > 19-01-2026, 05:57 PM