- Options
- Login
- Desktop Style
Options
Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
- Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
-
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Dobri > 09-05-2025, 11:59 PM
What if the two nymphs placed at the opposite sides of a reclined bathtub are a depiction of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.? (or a doubled day)?
The doubled day in a leap year was on the 24th of February (the 6th day before the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on the first of March counting backwards) so that the number of recorded days in February remained fixed to 28 days.
The 29th of February in a leap year was gradually introduced in written documents throughout the 15th century.
-
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
nablator > 10-05-2025, 09:24 AM
(09-05-2025, 11:59 PM)Dobri Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The 29th of February in a leap year was gradually introduced in written documents throughout the 15th century.
Quote:The convention of using February 29 was not widely accepted before the 15th century; from Julius Caesar's edict in 45 BC until the 16th century (formally), February 24 was doubled instead
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Dobri > 10-05-2025, 03:33 PM
During the 12th century, Pisces was still considered within the month of March despite the drift toward February in the Julian calendar.
A 12th-century copy of the 11th-century You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) shows Pisces in March (from the Thorney Computus, Cambridgeshire, England; ca. 1102–10, Saint John’s College, Oxford, MS 17). Every zodiac sign is shown with a month and its duration, and also with the duration of a lunar month.
Notice the distinctive Benedictine diamond-shaped frame connecting the four elements and the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
![[Image: Medieval_four_elements.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Medieval_four_elements.jpg)
-
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Dobri > 10-05-2025, 09:05 PM
-
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Hider > 01-06-2025, 08:24 PM
Instead of hind legs, Capricorn has the tail of a fish.
![[Image: 1536678_900.jpg]](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/antimantikora/4732936/1536678/1536678_900.jpg)
-
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Koen G > 01-06-2025, 08:27 PM
That's a cool image. Looks like grafting to me, maybe of apple trees. -
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Rafal > 02-06-2025, 12:06 AM
Quote:Instead of hind legs, Capricorn has the tail of a fish.
It's rather a rule than an exception for old images of Capricorn.
Today Capricorn is mostly presented just like a normal goat. But it wasn't in the past. Actually Capricorn is not a common goat.
It is a sea-goat -fantastic creature from Babylonian Mythology and it has this fishy tail:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -
RE: Pisces (Folio 70v) and the New Year on the 1st of March in the Republic of Venice
Bernd > 03-06-2025, 12:25 PM
Yes, it's rind grafting on the image above. The man is hammering his blade into the stock to create an incision for the scions. Grafting is usually done in February-March.
![[Image: default.jpg]](https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009BY8527/full/1400,/0/default.jpg)