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-JKP- · (This post was last modified: 11-12-2017, 04:09 AM by -JKP-.)

Blue Leo

less than 2% of zodiacs
found primarily in English manuscripts from about 830 (England) to about mid-13th century, but there are a couple from Normandy/Flanders and France within the same time period
Cotton MS Galba A XVIII is on bumpy terrain but in a different pose, facing right, head turned
the raised-foreleg pose is found in BL Add MS 21926, c. 1200s
the tail between the legs standing straight up is in Walters W.37 c. 1305 (a blue lion raised-foreleg pose is also found on Seljuk tiles and other artifacts of the 13th century, but the tail curls under or is above the body without going through the legs, so the VMS pose is more similar to the drawing in Walters W.37 (possibly Normandy/Flanders region or England) than it is to the Seljuk tiles

Note that all these blue lions have manes.