VMs: Re: Libro de Astromagia

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafal,

> I have just bought a new book by Prof. Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot
> on the iconography of zodiacal degrees in the Middle Ages
> (I wrote about her earlier books some time ago) and was
> quite interested to find reproductions from a MS now
> in the Vatican Library _Libro de Astromagia_ by
> Pseudo-Pythagoras, which originates from Spain and is
> dated to 1280. It contains diagrams for all signs
> with images for every degree, vaguely reminiscent
> of the layout of the VMS signs.

Great book - I presume it's "Ikonografia znako´w zodiaku i gwiazdozbioro´w 
w s´redniowieczu"? - and also thanks for the scan of Libra. :-)

Can you please tell me which degree on the Libra diagram is the first one?

Also: the properties of each degree seems quite prosaic - the "degree of 
seabirds", for example. Modern degree attributions I've seen are rather 
more, well, esoteric. :-)

I thought that in a lot of Arabic astrology each degree was often 
associated with a specific star in that constellation - or is that 
something quite different from the traditions described in this book?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....