(15-04-2016, 03:50 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Ah, I see, you are right. So that limits the problems to two things:
- split of animals
- selection of different-yet-similar animals where one wouldn't expect those
I understand a lot of variation is common in drawings like scorpion, but for example the feline seems weird to me.
Have any explanations been found as to why it seems to have had blue fur, or at least dark spots?
The lizard-scorpion was not uncommon to a certain place and time and in fact there is a lizard in Europe that was called "scorpius" (or it may have been a more general term for certain kinds of lizards, there wasn't enough context in the manuscript for me to figure it out exactly).
A lion without a mane is uncommon. I've found a couple in the Mediterranean area but one has spots and is probably a leopard rather than a lion. But... I have also found a couple in northern Europe, one very similar to the VMS "lion". I will be blogging about it when I have time to make some sense of all the info I've gathered.
As for blue animals... Blue rams are very common in zodiacs. Most lions are brownish, but not always. The bulls come in a wide variety of colors.
Sorry, I linked to a bad example of Scorpio (lizard) and have removed the link. That was Lacerta (the lizard constellation) but the medieval Scorpius examples are similar. I included them in one of the zodiac maps in a previous blog:
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