EnniusAstronomy showing the stars to a group of scholars at the beginning of Ptolemy's Almagest translated by Gerard of Cremona
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BL Burney 275; Scholastic miscellany; 14th century; France, Central (Paris); f.390v
Astrologia teaching the science of the stars
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BnF MS Latin 7900A; Various including Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Mercuri et Philologiae (ff.112-155); 9th century (end) or 10th century (beginning); Northern Italy (Milan?) f.151v @[email protected]
Ptolemy, depicted as a king, pointing to the heavens
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BL Harley 334; Gautier de Metz, Image du Monde; 15th century f.95v
Heavens above:
"These are a sun and a moon and stars within this wheel."
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BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f.517
It is said Constantine saw a portent in the heavens.
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BL Harley MS 5632; Manuel Malaxos, Synopsis of Histories; 1574 CE; (Eastern Mediterranean); f.6r
Heavens above!
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München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 14300; Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum, and Sententiae; end of 8th/beginning of 9th century; Salzburg; f.14r
Ptolemy pointing at the heavens
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BnF MS Grec 1401; Claudius Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia; 15th c (end) for text & 16th c (beginning) for the title page & maps; Constantinople(?) for text, & Italy for the title page & maps; f.2r @[email protected]
Balaam gazing at the heavens with an astrolabe
"A star has gone forth from Jacob"
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Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, NW Spain f.90r
Alexander and Aristotle pointing at circles of the heavens shown by an angel
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BL Add 47680; Secretum Secretorum; 14th century; England, S. E. (London); f.51v
