Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Phaenomena
Italy, Naples, 1469
MS M.389 fol. 23v

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Constellation: Gemini and Constellation: Cancer -- Two men, twins, partially draped in mantles, standing, both point with right hands toward harp held in left hand of one twin. To left is lobster (Cancer). Figures inscribed with red dots representing the stars that form the constellations.