Zodiacal iconography

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have now looked at two books on Zodiacal iconography by
Prof. Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot which were mentioned earlier. 
These books are:

1. Ikonografia znakow Zodiaku i gwiazdozbiorow w sredniowieczu,
   Krakow 1994. [Iconography of the signs of the Zodiac and
   constellations in the Middle Ages]

2. Ikonografia znakow Zodiaku i gwiazdozbiorow w rekopisach
   Albumasara, Krakow 1997. [Iconography of the signs of 
   the Zodiac and constellations in Albumasar's manuscripts]

There is also a third one but I have not seen it yet.

3. Ikonografia znakow zodiaku i gwiazdozbiorow w rekopisie 
   monachijskim Abrahama ibn Ezry, Krakow 1998.
   [Iconography of the signs of the Zodiac and constellations 
   in the Munich manuscript of Abraham ibn Ezra]

All of them are analyses and catalogues of the images used
in medieval astronomical/astrological illuminated manuscripts
to depict signs of the Zodiac, decans and constellations.
The first book is based on a survey of some 200 manuscripts
from the 13th-15th c. (including one from the Beinecke Library
- but not *the* one).

There are lots of illustrations but... nothing is really
similar to anything in the VMS. There are many unconventional
images for the signs of the Zodiac so that those in the VMS
look quite ordinary (almost "modern", I would say).

There are naked girls here and there - but again nothing
resembling those in the VMS.

I will now try to contact the author. Hopefully, she will
be able to identify an area or "school" where the VMS images
may have originated.

Best regards,

Rafal