Classical images – Greek Gemini
Prow of Argo with single Twin disembarking Dioskouroi and the Apharidae from the ship on horseback From Delphi, Treasuriy of the Schythians, c. 560 BC From Scythian Treasury, Delphi Delphi Archaeological Museum (inv. 1322) Delphi Archaeological Museum I cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
1 Classical images – Greek Gemini
Dioskouroi Dioskouroi flanking Helen (?) c. 580 BC From the cemeteries of Thasos, Macedonia Delphi Archaeological Museum (inv. 467 and 1524) late Hellenistic cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet Thasos Archaeological Museum (inv. 467 and 1524) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
2 Classical images – Greek Gemini
Dioskouroi with procession of worshippers Dioskouroi with river Strymon at bottom Greek, 4th C BC Greek, 2nd C AD Rome, Palazzo Altemps (inv. 1822595) Amphipolis, Macedonia, Archological Museum cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet (A 673) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
3 Classical images – Greek Gemini
Dioskouroi at the tomb of Asgamemnon(Orestes and Electra myth) Paestan red-figure lekanis , attr to the Floreale pntr, c. 330 BC. Paestum, National Archaeological Museum ; cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
Dioskouroi Black figure column krater From Vulci, c. 540 BC London, The British Museum (Gr 1843.11-3.38) 4 cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet Classical images – Greek Gemini
Dioskouroi Eucratides I with Dioskouroi Silver drachm from istros, c. 400 BC Silver hemi drachm from Bactria, c. 175-145 Athens, Alpha Bank Numismatic BC cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet cf: Coinindia Coin Gallery
Head of satyr with two caps of Twin (piloi) with stars on top From Pantikapaion (NE Black Sea), 130-125 BC Cf: kwinto-coins.com 5 Classical images – Greek Gemini
Tetradrachm with river-god Gela c. 450-440 BC credit: www.cointalk.com
Zodiac panel with personifications of Greek months From the Church of the Virgin and St Eleftherios, Athens Attic, date controversial (3rd C BC to 2nd C AD) Fragments of Attic Calendar re-used in the church facade. According to Deubner first Thargelion, then Gemini, then Skirophorion, then the sacrifice of an oxen at the Dipolieia, then Cancer, then Hekatombaion, then a personification of Theoria, at the end Leo and Sirius (as dog)
6 Classical images – Etruscan Gemini
Dioskouroi flanking unidentified dieity in a temple Bronze mirror, 3-2nd C BC Milan, Museo Civioco (A O 9 1002) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
7 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Silver vessel from the Capheaton Treasure Detail Pelike with Dioscurides Roman, 2-3rd C AD N African, 1st C AD London, BM (inv PRB 1824. 4-89.65) Cologne, Rom. Mus n.b. – Gemini on neck, Mercury above, river-gods,
8 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Dioscuri with Helen Dioscuri with procession of worshippers Roman copy of 4th C original, c. 30-20 BC Greek, 4th C BC Rome, Capitoline Museum (inv. MC 1961) Rome, Palazzo Altemps (inv. 1822595) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
9 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Dioscuri Helmeted head of Roma with Dioscuri Helmeted head of Roma with Dioscuri Silver coin from Agrigento Denarius from the Roman mint, 207BC Denarius from the Roman mint, 136 BC Agrigento, Museo archeologico cf: Frajola.com cf: Frajola.com
Hadian with Disocuri on rev Dioscuri with Janus-form heads Constantine with Dioscuri From Phoenecia (Tripoli mint), 117-38 AD Silver quagrigatus, or diadrachm Gold aureus Cf. vcoins.com Roman Republic, 225-212 BC From Aquileia, 294-303 AD cf: Wikipedia/quardigatus cf. Numismatics.org 10 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Detail of one of the Dioscuri Jupiter and Juno Dolicheni with Isis, Serapis, the Dioscuri, Meleagar Sarcophagus from Dyrrachium (Durres, Albania), 2nd C AD Sol (Sun) and Luna (Moon). Istanbul Archeological Museum (inv. 2100 T cat Mendel 4) Roman (from the Aventine Hill) , c. 250 AD cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet Capitoline Museums, Rome. Inv. No. 9750. cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
11 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Meleagar Sarcophagus 2nd quarter of the 3rd Cent. AD Pisa, Antiquarium, Monumental Cemetery Cf. Flikr/Egisto Sani
12 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Tabula Bianchini Rome, 2nd C AD Paris Musée du Louvre
13 Classical images – Roman Gemini
A married couple, behind whom stands a goddess wearing a diadem,flanked by the Dioscuri with their horses, three erotes (cupids) and two river gods. From the Via Appia, Rome, 240-260 AD. Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
14 Classical images – The Calydonian Boar Gemini
The Kalydonian Boar hunt. (Dioscuri with pilos cap) Roman Imperial period (from Naples), 150-250 AD. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Inv. No. AD 1947.278.
Hunt of the Kalydonian Boar (mounted Dioscuri) from Vicovaro (Varia), late 2nd - early 3rd century AD Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums, Rome (inv. no. 917) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
The Kalydonian Boar hunt.(Dioscuri with pilos cap) from Eleusis, c. 200 AD Eleusis Archeological Museum (inv. 5343) 15
Classical images – The Calydonian Boar Gemini
Hunt of the Calydonian Boar, detail of the Dioscuri Palermo, Cathedral crypt cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet 16 Classical images – Roman Gemini
Pirro Ligorio Dioscuri Drawing of the Temple of the Dioscuri, Naples (destr 1632?) Villa Silene, Libya from Turin, Archivio di Stato, Antichita Romane, XII (Lib XIII), fol. 23v
17 Classical images – Greek (Hellenistic) Gemini
Marble statuette Castor and Pollux (San Ildefonso Group) Antonine copy of Greek roiginal Roman (after Praxiteles), 1st C AD (Alexandrine school) Madrid, Prado Venice, Museuo Archeologicao, inv. no. 124 Traversari Catal, 1986, p. 31 n.b. – wearing pilios on head with star on it
18 Classical images – Greek (Hellenistic) Gemini
Marble statuette Castor and Pollux (San Ildefonso Group) Antonine copy of Greek original Roman (after Praxiteles), 1st C AD (Alexandrine school) Madrid, Prado Venice, Museo Archeologicao, inv. no. 124 Traversari Catal, 1986, p. 31 n.b. – wearing pilios on head with star on it
19 Classical images – Egyptian (Hellenistic) Gemini Gemini
Drawing by Flinders Petrie of the Athribus, Zodiac Tomb Gemini with the Moon below 3rd C BC- 2nd C AD Cf. Petrie, Anthribus, 1908
20 Late classical images – Byzantine Gemini
One of the Dioskouroi Meleagar Dish from the Octagon, Thessaloniki Constantinople, 6th C Thessaloniki. Early 4th century AD. Munich, Bayerisches National Museum Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum. (inv. no. 6692) cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
21 Late classical images – Byzantine Gemini
David presented to Saul Dioscuri on a pedestal Silver plate Polychrome fabric on red ground Byzantine (Constantinople), 613-629/30 cf: Beckwith 1969 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
22 Late classical images – Byzantine Gemini
Dioscuri on the reverse of a small AE4 Dioscuri in background of Constantine II St Theodore Stratilates From the Basil Menologion, c. 1000 c. 330 AD From the Basil Menologion, c. 1000 Vatican, BAV, Vat grec 1613 Vatican, BAV, Vat grec 1613
23 Late classical images – Roman Gemini
Phalera in gilded silver of warrior with spear Castor and Pollux From Ittenheim, 7th C AD Roman 1st half 3rd C AD Strasbourg, Musée archéologique New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fragment of a patera with a soldiier Roman 24 Museu Nacional de Arqueologia et Etnologia, Lisbon Late classical images – Roman Gemini
Funeral stele of Lepontius Starsbourg, Musée archéologique
25 Late classical images – Roman Gemini
Castor and Pollux Castor and Pollux Rome, Campidoglio Naples, Museo archeologico Cf: David Jonh/My favourite planet
26 Classical globes Gemini
Naples, Farnese Atlas © Petr Hadrava Bentley’s Manilius n.b. – two nude male youths, standing with backs to viewers, arms intertwining at shoulder level, front Twin pointing towards Auriga
Paris, Kugel Globe Mainz globe (drawing © Kunzl) 27 n.b. – two nudes, facing the viewer n.b. – arms intertwined below shoulders; facing away from viewer Germanicus mss Gemini
I. = z stemma
Leiden, Univbibl Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibl. Mun. Bern, Burgerbibl, Voss lat 4° 79 Ms 188 Ms 88 n.b. – nude, mantles, pilos with cross, left same n.b. – same Twin holding club and right holding harp
vs. planet diagram vs. planet diagram vs. planisphere vs. planisphere n.b. – club and spear, no mantle n.b. – club and spear, no mantle same 28 Germanicus mss Gemini II and III. = O stemma (O1 or ν ) II. III.
Basle, OBU Aberystwyth, NLW vs. planisphere Ms AN.IV . 18 Ms 735 C n.b. – in togas, embracing n.b. – nude, mantles, club and harp, with Cancer n.b. – warriors with spears, Cancer between to right
vs. planisphere vs. schema vs. planet diagram vs. summer hemisphere 29 n.b. – two nudes, outer arms raised nude, embracing same Germanicus mss Gemini
IV. = O stemma (O2 or μ ) Va. = O stemma (O2 or μ = Siciliensis)
Cologny, Bib Bodmer NY, Pierpont Morgan Libr Cod lat 7 Ms M 389 n.b. – nude with mantles, right same, but with Cancer to left Twin with harp; both pointing
Vb.
Madrid, Bib nac Ms 19 (16) Vatican, BAV n.b. – nude with mantles; left Twin holds club, right Twin with harp; Barb lat 76 30 Cancer to right n.b. – same, but with Cancer to right
Germanicus mss = ‘Siciliensis’ Gemini
VI.
London BL Egerton 1050 n.b. – two nudes with mantles, right Twin with harp, both pointing, Cancer to right
VII. = fragmentum ... repertum in Sicilia
? ?
London BL Naples, Bib naz Add 15819 XIV D 37 31 n.b. – same
Germanicus mss ( = ‘Siciliensis’) Gemini VIIIa.
Vatican, BAV Madrid Bib Nac Vienna, Schottenstift Barb lat 77 Ms 8282 Ms 51 same n.b. – two nudes with mantles, right Twin same
with harp, both pointing, Cancer to right
VIIIb. VIIIc. IX.
Vatican,BAV Florence, Bibl Laurenziana Montpellier Urb lat 1358 Plut 89 sup 43 Ms H 452 32 similar, but round Cancer same n.b. – two females (?)
Ps-Eratosthenes Gemini
planisphere – two nudes facing viewer, with sticks (?)
missing from manuscript
Vatican BAV, zodiac rota summer hemisphere Vat grec 1087 33 Cicero Gemini
missing from manuscript
London, BL London, BL Harley 647 Harley 647 – planisphere
missing from manuscript
London, BL Harley 2506 34
Cicero Gemini
missing from manuscript
London, BL Cotton ms Tib B.V., pars 1
missing from manuscript missing from manuscript
London, BL Gottweig, Cotton Ms Tib C. 1 Stiftsbibl Ms 7 38
Revised Aratus Latinus Gemini
I.
Dresden, Landesbibl. Paris BN Prague, Univbibl Ms D C 183 – Lat 12957 Ms IX. C. 6 (1717) n.b. – two soldiers with spears; hands in n.b. – similar n.b. – two soldiers with spears, left Twin with front of chests viol
missing from ms
Dresden – summer hemisphere and Paris – winter hemisphere and globe Prague – winter hemisphere globe n.b. – two nudes, walking, hands on 36 n.b. – two nudes, walking, hands on shoulders, facing away from viewer shoulders, facing viewer
Revised Aratus Latinus Gemini
Ia.
St Gallen, Stiftsbibl St Gallen, Stiftsbibl Ms 902 Ms 250 n.b. – two soldiers with spears; hands in front of chests n.b. – two men with sticks, pointing at sticks
winter hemisphere and globe n.b. – male and female 37 Revised Aratus Latinus Gemini
Ib.
missing in manuscript missing in manuscript
Gottweig, Stiftsbibl. on hemisphere on globe Ms 7 (146)
missing in manuscript missing in manuscript
Siena, Bib com on hemisphere Ms L. IV. 25 n.b. two soldiers with spears, Cancer between 38
Revised Aratus Latinus Gemini
I. (distant relative)
image missing from manuscript
Paris BN n.a. 1614 Munich, Staatsbibl. Vatican, BAV n.b. – two soldiers with spears, right Twin Clm 560 Reg lat 1324 raises hand, Cancer below feet n.b. – two men in togas with staves
image missing from manuscript
summer hemisphere hemisphere summer hemisphere globe n.b. – walking nudes n.b. – male and female 39 Revised Aratus Latinus Gemini
II.
Cologne, Dombibliothek Ms 83.11 n.b. – two warriors with shields
40 ps-Bede, De signis caeli Gemini
I. Ia.
Oxford, Bodleian Padua, Bibl Antoniona Dijon Laud misc 644 Ms Anton 27 Bib mun, Ms 488 n.b. – two men, arm around shoulder, n.b. – similar n.b. – rwo soldiers with spears, hands over waists right Twin with harp
Venice, Bib Marciana Paris BN Ms VIII, 22 lat. 14754 41 n.b. – close to Oxford Laud 644 n.b. – close to Oxford ms ps-Bede, De signis caeli Gemini
IIa.
Paris, BN Paris, BN Lat 5543 Lat 5239 n.b. – two warriors with spears, inner hands on hips similar
42 ps-Bede, De signis caeli Gemini
IIb.
Zwettl, Stiftskirche Klosterneuburg, Vatican, BAV Ms 296 Stiftskirche, Ms 685 Vat lat 643 same n.b. – soldiers in armour with similar, but not in armour
spears, Cancer between feet
43 ps-Bede, De signis caeli Gemini
III.
missing from manuscript
Laon Rouen, Bib mun, Ms 422 Bibl mun, 26 n.b. – two men with staves
44 ps-Bede, De signis caeli Gemini
Singletons
missing from manuscript missing from manuscript
Amiens Durham, Cathedral Libr in calendar Bibl mun, Ms 222 Hunter 100 n.b. – two women
missing from manuscript
Freiburg-im-Bresgau Montecassino, Ms 35 Badia, Ms 3 n.b. – two youths with sticks (and black eyes?) 45 De ordine ac positione Gemini
Ia.
Berlin, Staatsbibl, Berlin planisphere Ms lat 130 (Phill 1832) n.b. – two nudes, one with stick (?) n.b.– two nudes with mantles, left Twin with harp, right Twin with spear; both pointing
missing from manuscript
Monza, Bib capit summer hemisphere Ms F. 9/176 (246) similar, but harp missing 46 De ordine ac positione Gemini
Ia.
Madrid, Bib Nac Ms 3307 n.b.– two nudes with mantles, left Twin with harp, right Twin with spear
47 De ordine ac positione Gemini Ib.
Vatican BAV, Vat lat 645 n.b.– nude with mantles, left Twin with harp and pointing, right Twin with spear II.
missing from manuscript
Munich, Staatsbibl. planisphere Vienna, ONB Ms clm 210 two nudes Vindob 387 n.b. – two warriors, spears in inner hands, outer hands raised 48 De ordine ac positione Gemini
III.
Austin TX, Harry Ransom, Paris BN St Petersburg, Nat Libr Univ of Texas, Ms 29 lat n.a. 1614 Ms Q v IX, no 2 n.b. – nude with mantles, similar, with spears similar sticks, right Twin pointing
IV.
Paris BN Vatican BAV, lat 12117 Reg lat 309 49 n.b.– mbracing, with spears same De ordine ac positione Gemini
V.
Los Angeles, Getty Mus Paris BN, Ludwig XII, 5 lat 8663 n.b. – two soldiers, spears in right n.b. – two nudes males, walking, pointing hands, buckler held by right Twin Singletons
missing from manuscript
Vienna, ONB Reykjavik Vindob 12600 Ms 1812 50 n.b. – two youths, hand on cheek Hyginus Gemini
Ia.
missing from manuscript
S Paul im Lavantthal Florence, Bibl Laurenziana Leiden, Univ-blbl Ms 16/1 (XXV. 4. 20 Ms Plut 29.30 Voss 8°18 n.b. – two nude females (?) n.b. – two nude males, standing, arms interwined walking, arms intertwined Ib.
Wolfenbüttel, Herz Aug London BL Ms 18. 16. Aug 4° Arundel 339 51 n.b. – two youths, arms interwtwined same, raised hand
Hyginus Gemini Ic. (singleton) II. (singleton)
Vienna ONB Leiden Univ-bibl Vindob 51 Voss lat 4° 92 n.b. – youths with mantles, walking n.b. – youths embracing
54 Hyginus Gemini
III.
Leiden Univ-bibl Vatican BAV Vat Reg lat 123 -- planisphere Voss lat 8° 15 Reg lat 123 n.b. – standing youths n.b. – two warriors with spears, Cancer between n.b.. – similar, without Cancer raised hand (cf ps-Bede)
54 Hyginus Gemini IV.
Oxford, Bodleian Libr Oxford, Bodleian Libr Bodley 614 Digby 83 (SC 1684) n.b. – two males embracing, pointing hand same
54 Hyginus Gemini
V. (singleton)
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery Ms 734 n.b. – nude males, arms interlinked, hands on hips
55 Hyginus Gemini
VI. (singleton) VI- related: German Star Books (‘secundum Hyginum’)
?
Berlin, Staatsbibl. Ms 8° 44 (Rose 962) Lyon, Bib mun, Pal des Lyon, Bib mun Munich, Staatsbibl n.b. – nude males, arms intertwined, Arts 45 Ms 172 Germ 595 outside arms raised, Right Twin with nude children, arms n.b. – arms intertwined harp raised
Munich, Staatsbibl Vatican BAV Vatican BAV Wolfenbüttel Herz Aug Clm 59 Pal.lat. 1369 Pal.lat. 1389 Guelf 81 24 Aug 2 n.b. – same, with harp like Munich 595 same, with harp male and female 56
Hyginus Gemini
VII. (singleton) VIII. (singleton)
missing from manuscript
London BL, Munich, Staatsbibl. Roy Ms 13. A. XI Clm 10270 n.b. – two images : sea serpent and head with water
57 Hyginus Gemini IXa.
missing from manuscript
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Mus Florence, BN Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana Oxford, Bodleian Libr Ms 260 Magl XI. 141 T. 47 sup Can. class lat 179 nude youth with urn same same, but female (!)
Siena, Bib com Vatican, BAV Vatican, BAV Verona, Bibl capitolare Ms L. VI. 25 Vat lat 3109 Vat lat 3109 Ms CCLXI 58 same old man, pissing river same, but femaie(!)
Hyginus Gemini
IXb. IXc.
missing from manuscript
Oxford, Bodleian Library Milan, Bibl Trivulziana Vatican, BAV Florence, BNC Can misc 46 N. 690 (E 83) Vat lat 3110 Magl XI. 114,1 n.b. – on back, curved snout, same, but sharp teeth similar wattles
59 Hyginus Gemini IXd. (distant singleton) IXe.
Florence, Bibl Laurenziana Pavia, Bibl Univ Vatican., BAV Ashburnam 1148 Aldini 490 Urb lat 1358 n.b. – on back, pointed snout, similar, gnarled snout same teeth, wattles IXf. IXg.
New York, Public Library Freiberg, Andreas-Möller-Bibl. Florence, Bib Naz Spencer Ms 28 Cl XI 4o 9 Plut 89, sup 43 similar, spiky dorsal fin same n.b. – swimming, wattles, 60 gnarled snout Hyginus Gemini
X. (singleton) XI. (singleton)
missing from manuscript
Vatican, BAV Cortona, Lib del Comune Chigi H. IV. 20 Ms 184 (256) n.b. – upright, gnarled snout
61 Hyginus Gemini
? missing from manuscript missing from manuscript
Cambrai, Bibl Mun. Cambridge, Trinity College Leiden, Univ.-bibl. Ms 933 (832) Ms R 15 32 Gronovius 21
62 Hyginus Gemini
Venice: Ratdolt, 1482
cf Michael Scot = nude, winged, left Twin with Vienna ÖNB sickle, right Twin with harp Vindob 3111 same
63 Basinio da Parma Gemini
Ia. Ib.
Rimini, Cassa di Risparmio Cambridge, CUL (London Sotheby’s sale 1992) Dd IV 64 n.b. – two youths, shaking hands, n.b. – same left Twin pointing up IIa.
?
Oxford, Bodleian Libr Parma, Bib Palatina, Venice, Bibl Marciana Bodley 646 Parm 1008 XII, 194 (4148) n.b. – two nude males, , hand on same same 64 shoulder, raised right hands
Basinio da Parma Gemini
IIb.
missing from manuscript
Parma, Bibl Palatina Rome Bibl Casanatense Munich, BSB Parm 27 Ms 4059 Clm 15743 n.b. – two nudes, one pointing; left n.b. – shaking hands, Left Twin points Twin later (?) up
65 Basinio da Parma Gemini
III. IV.
Bologna, Bibl Com London, Wellcome Coll Ms 173 WMS 122 n.b. – nude males, left Twin points up same V. VI.
Ravenna, Bib Classense Florence, Bibl Marucelliana Ms 120 Ms C. CCLI 66 n.b. – two infants fighting n.b. – two nudes, hands on shoulders
Basinio da Parma Gemini
? ?
Krakow, Padua, Bibl. Universitaria Rps BJ 3706 Cod 983
67 Michael Scot Gemini
N Italian Group – Ia.
Munich, Staatsbibl Oxford, Bodleian Libr Clm 10268 Bodley Ms 266 n.b. – nude youths with mantles and wings, inner arms same intertwined, left Twin with curved stick, right Twin with harp … secundam vero alios prior dicitur Zethus et alter Amphion sive Tripus.
Ambo sunt nudi, habentes clamidem separatim et Zethus habet in manu dextra uncum [hook], Tripus vero liram in manu sinistra.
(ed Ackermann 2009, pp. 152-155).
68
Michael Scot Gemini
N Italian Group – Ib.
?
Vatican, BAV St Petersburg, Nat Libr Vat lat 4087 A Ms lat F V IX, no. 1 n.b. – same
69 Michael Scot Gemini
N Italian Group – Ic. N Italian Group – Id. N Italian Group – Ie.
?
Vienna, ONB Padua, Bibl Seminario Warsaw, BN, Vindob 3394 Cod. 48 B Baw 46 n.b. – nude without wings or mantles, n.b. – two youths shaking hands, left Twin left Twin with viol, right Twin with crook points up (cf. Hyginus mss)
70 Michael Scot Gemini
Venetian Group – IIa. Venetian Group – IIb.
London BL London, Wellcome Coll Milan, Ambrosiana Add 41600 Ms 509 Ms I 90 sup n.b. – two nude children, arms n.b. – nude, winged, walking, left same interlocked, right Twin pointing Twin hook, right Twin harp
71 Michael Scot Gemini Bohemian Group – IIIa.
Vienna, ONB Vienna, ONB Vindob 2352 Vindob 2378 n.b. – male and female nudes, winged, arms intertwined, n.b. – similar left Twin with hook, right Twin with harp
72 Michael Scot Gemini Bohemian – IIIa. Bohemian – IIIb.
Prague NK, Paris BN Ms III. C. 2 lat 7408A n.b. – nude males, shaking hands, walking, right Twin with n.b. – two nude males, no attributes detatched wing
73 Michael Scot Gemini
Bohemian – IIIc. Bohemian – IIId.
missing from manuscript no zodiac signs
Vienna, ONB Cambridge, MA Vindob 5442 Harvard, Houghton Libr., Typ 43 n.b. – male nudes with mantles, not winged, arms intertwined, left Twin with hook, right Twin with harp
74 Michael Scot Gemini
? ?
Edinburgh, Royal Observatory Florence, BNC Ms Cr 3. 23 Magl. XXII, 22
?
Klosterneuburg, Augustiner Ch-Stift, Krakow, Bibl Jagiellonska Ms CCI 125 Rps 573 n.b. – two seated nudes, seen from behind, holding plants 75 Michael Scot Gemini
Prague, Narodni Knihova Seville, Bibl Columbina Ms XXXVI A 3 Ms. 7.7.1 n.b. – two nudes, strange headdresses, left n.b. – two nudes, winged, inner arms crossed Twin with hook, right Twin with harp
76 Michael Scot Gemini German mss – IVa.
Darmstadt, Hess Hochschulbibl. Berlin, Staatsbibl Ms 266 Ms germ fol 244 n.b. – male and female nudes, walking, n.b. – two nude males with mantles, arms arms intertwined, left Twin with crook, intertwined, right Twin with hook, left Twin with harp right Twin with harp/bucket (?)
Salzburg, Studienbibl Vatican, BAV 2 G 8/13 Pal lat 1370 77 similar to above same
Michael Scot Gemini
German mss – IVa.
Paris, BN in calendars decans/ prosopa (note hook) Allem 106 n.b. – nude male and female, male pointing (Adam and Eve?)
78 Michael Scot Gemini
German mss – IVb.
missing from manuscript Planetary ruler (Mercury) decans/ prosopa (not as single constellation)
Tubingen Univ-bibl. paranatellonta rotae melothesia man planet children Ms d 2
79 Michael Scot Gemini
German mss – IVb.
?
Wolfenbüttel, Herz Aug Bibl Mercury as planetary ruler Ms Guelph 29 14 Aug 4°
80 Michael Scot – German version Gemini
? ?
Coburg, Bayerisches Landesbibl. Edinburgh, Royal Observatory Libr. Freiburg, Univ-bibl. Ms 5 Ms Cr 4 6 Ms 458 n.b. – male and female, hook and lyre, only one winged
? ? ?
Heidelberg Univ-bibl. Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibl. Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmus. Pal germ 832 Ms K 2790 Ms 7082 81
Michael Scot - derived Gemini
Venice: Ratdolt, 1482 Bartolommeo da Parma
cf. Michael Scot Cambridge, Emmanuel College Metz, Bibl mun Ms 70 Ms 287 n.b. – similar, left Twin without hook similar, left twin with sword
82 Michael Scot - derived Gemini
Fazio degli Uberti
?
Paris, BN, Modena, Bibl Estense Ital 81 Ital 483 (α. P. 47) n.b. – two nude males, left Twin with sickle, right Twin with harp
83 Michael Scot - derived Gemini Guido Bonatti
London, BL Arundel Ms 66 n.b. – two nudes, winged, left Twin sickle, right twin with feathered arm (?)
84 Michael Scot - derived Gemini
Ludovicus de Angulo
St Gallen, Vadianische Libr Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana Madrid, BN Ms 427 Ms 3011 Ms 9267 n.b. – nude males embracing n.b. – males embracing n.b. . – co-joined twins
85 Michael Scot - derived Gemini Ludovicus de Angulo
?
Paris BN Paris BN Paris BN Lat 6561 Fr 612 Lat 7344 n.b. – embracing nude males n.b. – co-joined twins
86 Lambertus, Liber Floridus Gemini
Hague Hague Paris, BN Chantilly, Petit Château Ms 72.A.83 Ms 128 C Lat 8865 Ms 724 (1596) n.b. – semi-nude males, with same similar, nude and left Twin same, without plant mantles and spears, one holding without spear plant
?
Leiden, Univ-bibl Ghent Paris, BN Wolfenbüttel, WDB, Ms 1° 31 Ms 92 Lat 9675 Ms Gud lat 1 same same same,
87 Domenico d’Arezzo Gemini
Vatican BAV Madrid, BN Val Lat 3121 Ms 1983 n.b. – two nude males, arms crossing, outer n.b. – similar, but no spear hands raised, right Twin with spear
88 Domenico d’Arezzo Gemini
missing from manuscript
Fermo, Bibl. Com. Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana London, Lambeth Palace Ms 4 Aedil 170 Ms 35 n.b. – excised from manuscript n.b. – two men walking, arms interlinked, left Twin pointing
89 Matteo Palmieri, Città di Virtù Gemini
Florence, Bibl Laurenziana detail from planisphere Plut 40 53 n.b. – two male nudes embracing male and female nudes
90 Eastern Globes Gemini
Florence,Mus delle Scienze, no. 2712 Paris globe GA 325 dated 1025 AD n.b. – raised hands, crossed arms
Smithsonian Mus, no 72-3085 BM – Malcolm globe 91 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Doha, Mus of Islamic Art Istanbul, Süleymaniye Libr Ms 2. 1998. SO (= Sotheby’s 1998, lot 34) Ms Fatih Kütüphanesi 3422 Dated April 1125 AD; Baghdād 1125/26 AD; Mārdin n.b. – nude couple (male and female?), inner arms intertwined, outer arms raised, walking, leading Twin with diadem
92 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
?
Istanbul, Topkapī Sarayī Oxford, Bodleian Libr Ahmet II 3493 Huntington Ms 212 1130-31 AD, Mayyafariqin, SE Turkey 1170/71 AD; Mosul same
93 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
?
Oxford, Bodleian Libr Berlin, Staatsbibl. Ms Marsh 144 Ms qu or 704 1009-1010 AD; Shiraz (?), Iran c. 1203 n.b. – same
94 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Vatican, BAV Berlin, Staatsbibl. Ross 1033 Landberg 71 1224 AD, Ceuta (?) N Africa Aug/Sept 1233; Mosul n.b. – nude females (?), pointing hand n.b. – nude females (?), faces erased (?)
95 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Istanbul, Suleymanie Libr Ayasofia 2595 1249-50 AD; Alamut (?) Iran n.b. – male and female (?) 96 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Paris BN Paris BN Arabe 2488 Arabe 2489 mid-13th C, Ceuta (?) N Africa 1266-67 AD; Syria? n.b. – male and female (?)
97 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
? ?
London BL Cairo, National Libr Oxford, Bodleian Libr Or 5323 Ms Dar al-Kutub miqãt 390 Pococke 257 1260-80; Maragha (?), NW Iran 1300 AD 1303/04; Aleppo n.b. – breasts on leading Twin?
98 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
?
Escorial NY, Metropolitan Mus Ms 915 Ms 13.160-10 (Rogers Fund 1913) 20 March 1364 AD c. 1400, Samarkand
99 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
?
Paris BN Bologna, Bibl. Univ Ms arabe 5036 Ms 2953 c. 1430-40, Samarkand 8 Oct 1500 AD
100 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
?
Dublin, Chester Beatty Libr Paris BN Ms Ar 4119 Arabe 2490 1504/05 AD 1516/17 AD n.b. – underdrawing on left; pouncing on right for transfer
101 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Paris BN Paris BN Arabe 2492 Arabe 2491 18th C 1770 AD n.b. – nude females
102 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
? ? ?
Dublin, Chester Beatty Libr London BL Istanbul, Perter Pasa Libr Ms Ar 4222 Add ms 7488 Ms 375 16th C; Iran 16th C 16th C
103 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Copenhagen, Kong. Bibl. Ms arabe 83 25 May 1602 AD; Medina; copied from copy dated 1013/14 AD believed to be al-Sufi’s own copy n.b. – infants, backs to viewer
104 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
St Petersburg, Inst Or Studs Princeton, Univ Libr Ms n.s. 191 Ms Garrett 2259 Yehuda 16th C; Istanbul ? al-Sufi, dated 3 Jan 1607
105 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
Paris BN Arabe 6528 India, 1643-44 n.b. – river
106 non-Latin Eastern mss (al-Sufi, Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita) Gemini
New York, Met Museum of Art Ms 1975.192.2 attr. Iran (?), 18th C n.b. – haloes
107 non-Latin Eastern mss – al-Sufi translations, etc. Gemini
?
al-Sufi, at-Tusi transl???
?
Tehran, Riza ‘Abbasi Libr Ms M. 570 Ibn-al-Sufi (son) 108 1159-60 AD non-Latin Eastern mss - Qazwini Gemini
?
St Petersburg, Ms E (?) Baltimore, Walters Art Gall Paris BN Qazwini Ms W 359 Arabe 2178 Qazwini – embracing kings 1762-63 AD – walking, male and female (?)
?
Washington DC, Freer Location unknown Ms 1954 -52 (ex-Sarre) Mughal, 17th c Qazwini Qazwini 109 Sufi latinus – I (stellatio geminorum et sunt aliouze) Gemini
Paris, Bibl Arsenal Ms 1036 n.b. – nude, walking, inner arms intertwines, outer arms extended, turbans 110 Sufi latinus – II Gemini
Prague, Strahov Berlin, Staatsbibl, KK DA. II. 33 Ms 78 D 12 n.b. – same with piloi same
111 Sufi latinus – II Gemini
missing from manuscript
Gotha, Forshungsbibl Munich, Staatsbibl Membr II 141 Clm 826 same 112 Sufi latinus – III Gemini
Catania, Bibl Univ Vienna, ONB Ms Univ Ar, 387 Cod 5318 n.b. – similar, without caps same, but definitely male and female 113 Sufi latinus IV Gemini
Bernkastel-Kues, Nicolaus hosp. Ms 207 n.b. – male nudes
114 Alfonsine iconography Gemini
El Escorial and seven more Ms h 115 n.b. – male and femal e or both female?
Vatican BAV Vatican BAV Los Angeles, Getty Mus Reg lat 1283a Vat lat 8174 two females Ms Ludwig XII, 7 -- two males, arms intertwined Gemini… e chiamasi in latino Gemini e in Constellatio geminorum dicitur in arabico arabico altahuya mayn aliançe altathuamayn alyanze 115 Alfonsine iconography Gemini
Oxford, Bodleian Library Can. misc. 27 (zodiac only) n.b. – two male nudes, walking, arms intertwined, left Twin hand raised, right Twin hand down and pointing 116 Alfonsine Stellar Tables Gemini
Vatican, BAV Oxford, Bodleian Oxford, Bodleian Libr Urb lat 1399 Can class misc 554 Rawl C 117 similar n.b. – male and female nudes, left Twin n.b. – two males, inner arms with sickle, right Twin with harp intertwined, outer hands raised, Left Twin holding outer wrist of right Twin stellacio geminorum et sunt alcove
117 Alfonsine Stellar Tables Gemini
Bergamo, Bibl A Mai Vatican, BAV Ms Σ II 2 Vat lat 3099 n.b. – male and female nudes, one raising hand same Stellacio geminorum et sunt alionze Stellacio geminorum et sunt alionze
118 Alfonsine Stellar Tables Gemini
New York, Morgan Pierpont |Library Ms 355 (zodiac only)
119 ‘Ptolemaic’ stellar tables / picture books Gemini
Brussels, Bib Roy Vatican BAV Ms 10117-26 Pal lat 1368 n.b. – male and female, faced away from viewer n.b. – nude males with mantles, right Twin with harp Forma et stelle geminorum et sunt alienze Stellatio ymaginis geminorum
120 ‘Ptolemaic’ stellar tables Gemini
Vatican BAV Torun Pal lat 1377 Ms 35 n.b. – nude males, outer hands lowered n.b. – intertwined arm, Left Twin making gesture Forma et stelle geminorum et sunt alienze
121 ‘Ptolemaic’ stellar tables Gemini
?
Augsburg, Univ-bibl. Cod II 1.2o 110
122 ‘Ptolemaic’ picture books Gemini
missing from manuscript
Cambridge MA Basle, Univ-Bib Florence, BNC, Houghton, Typ 43 Ms F. II. 33 Ms Angeli 1147 n.b. – seated, facing viewer
123 ‘Ptolemaic’ stellar tables Gemini
Vienna ONB Vienna ONB 5415 Vienna 5415 northern hemisphere n.b. – infants, backs to viewer, holding flowers same , but reversed
124 Hebrew Stellar Tables Gemini
Phildelphia, U Penn Vienna, ONB Ms LJS 57 Hebrew 132 n.b. – walking male nudes, arms similar intertwined, outer hands raised
northern hemisphere 125 Seneca, Tragedies (comm. Nicolas Trevet) Capricorn
? ?
Padua, Univ . Bibl. Vatican BAV Vatican BAV Cod 896 Urb lat 355 Vat lat 1650
126 Fenduli Abridgement Gemini
no planet no planet
Paris BN Mercury – domus exaltation Jupiter– detriment fall Lat 7330 n.b. – co-joined Twins
no planet no planet
Paris BN Mercury – domus exaltation Jupiter – detriment fall 127 Lat 7331 – same
Fenduli Abridgement Gemini
no planet no planet
London BL Mercury – domus exaltation Jupiter – detriment fall Sloane 3983 – same
no planet no planet
NY Pierpont Morgan Libr Mercury – domus exaltation Jupiter – detriment fall M 785 – same 128 Fenduli Abridgement Gemini
image missing from no planet no planet manuscript
Paris BN Mercury – domus exaltation Jupiter – detriment fall Smith-Lesouëf 8 15th C – same
129 Seneca, Tragedies (comm. Nicolas Trevet) Gemini
Padua, Univ . Bibl. Vatican BAV Vatican BAV Cod 896 Urb lat 355 Vat lat 1650 n.b. – male and female, intertwined
130 Miscellaneous images Gemini
Bernkastel-Kues Darmstadt, , Univ- and Landesbibl. St Nicholas-Hospital Ms 1020 Ms 212 (hemispheres) northern hemisphere
131 Miscellaneous images Gemini
Cusanus globe
132 Miscellaneous – calendar pages Gemini
Vatican, BAV Reg. lat 309 London, BL Cambridge, St John’s College St Denis, 11th C Royal Ms 19 C 1, fol. 35v Ms B 30, fol. 2v S France, ea 14th C English, c. 1140
Cambridge, St John’s College Glasgow, University Library Paris BN London, BL Ms K. 30, fol. 3r Ms Hunter 229 (U 3 2), fol. 3r Lat. 12834, fol. 49r Add Ms 24678, fol. 3r North Midlands, c. 1190-1200 N. English, c. 1170 Master Honoré, c. 1290 Flemish, 13th C 133 Miscellaneous – calendar pages Gemini
London, BL London, BL London, BL Oxford, St John’s College Cotton Ms Nero C IV, fol. 42r Cotton Ms Tib BV, fol. 5v Egerton Ms 1139, fol. 15v Ms 17, fol. 18r Winchester, c. 1150 Winchester, 2/2 11th C Jerusalem, c. 1131-43 Romsey Abbey or Thorney Abbey, c. 1090
London, BL Salisbury, Cathedral Library Munich, BSB Harley Ms 647, fol. 12r Ms 150 Ms clm 4434, fol. 16v Arstein, 1170-80 English, late 10th C Gemini and Cancer 134 Reichenau, ea. 11th C Miscellaneous – calendar pages Gemini
Durham Cathedral Munich, BSB Hunter 100, fol. 4r Clm 835, fol. 3r Durham, c. 1108 Oxford, 1190-1120 n.b. – Gemini as two women
135 Miscellaneous – decorative cycles (architectural) Gemini
Amiens, Cathedral Leòn, San Isidoro Avignon, Petit Palais Chartres, Notre Dame West façade, left portal Cordero Portal Provence, c. 1200 West façade, left portal 1225-1235 Spanish, 11th C 1145-60
Nicolaus Paris, Notre Dame Sagra di San Michele West façade c. 1130-40 1210-20 136 Miscellaneous (mantle of Henry II) Gemini
Mantle of Henry II Regensburg, c. 1020 Bamberg, Domschatz
137 Miscellaneous - medieval Gemini
Ivory panel with Gemini and Europa and Bull London, BM Egypt (?), first half 6th C Woven tapestry with Actaeon and Artemis Trieste, Civici Musei Coptic (excavated Akhmim, Upper Egypt), 5th C Cf: Age of Spirituality 1979, p. 168 (cat. 146) n.b. – posture of Actaeon like Gemini with spear 138 Miscellaneous - medieval Gemini
Quedlinburg reliquary West Franconia, ivories c. 870, mounting c. 1200 Quedlinburg, S Servatius
Detail of choir stalls Westphalia, 14th C Sotheby’s, 10 April 1975, lot 717
139 Miscellaneous - Eastern Gemini
Boston MFA Drawing of a waterclock Egyptian, 1354 Inv. 14.533
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