Texts and Illustrations in Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms. Lat.

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1136
dc.contributor.author	Guidetti Fabio
dc.title	Texts and Illustrations in Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms. Lat. VIII 22 (2760)
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The article deals with the images of constellations depicted in the manuscript Lat. VIII 22 (2760) of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, produced probably in an Anglo-Norman milieu in the last quarter of the 12th century. After a short introduction on the manuscript and the texts it contains, the paper focuses on the illustrations of the Carolingian star catalogue known as De signis caeli, examining their different iconographic traditions as attested in the surviving copies. While the images in the main recension of the star catalogue clearly derive from a late antique archetype (probably the same that was used also for the so-called Aratus Latinus), the Venetian copy belongs to a group of manuscripts with a very different set of illustrations. The author proposes that this second recension is a Carolingian creation, invented between the late 8th and the early 9th century through contamination with the iconographic tradition of Germanicus’ Aratea. In this group of manuscripts, the original late antique set of illustrations was replaced by a new one, in order to give the star catalogue more consistency and to obtain a more effective tool for the study of the constellations.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-09-01
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-31
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-01-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-440-3/texts-and-illustrations-in-venice-biblioteca-nazio/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-6
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-7543-440-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-165-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aratean tradition
dc.subject	Aratean tradition
dc.subject	Aratus
dc.subject	Aratus
dc.subject	Constellations
dc.subject	Constellations
dc.subject	Mediaeval astronomy
dc.subject	Mediaeval astronomy

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Texts and Illustrations in Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms. Lat. VIII 22 (2760)

Fabio Guidetti Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Deutschland

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The article deals with the images of constellations depicted in the manuscript Lat. VIII 22 (2760) of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, produced probably in an Anglo-Norman milieu in the last quarter of the 12th century. After a short introduction on the manuscript and the texts it contains, the paper focuses on the illustrations of the Carolingian star catalogue known as De signis caeli, examining their different iconographic traditions as attested in the surviving copies. While the images in the main recension of the star catalogue clearly derive from a late antique archetype (probably the same that was used also for the so-called Aratus Latinus), the Venetian copy belongs to a group of manuscripts with a very different set of illustrations. The author proposes that this second recension is a Carolingian creation, invented between the late 8th and the early 9th century through contamination with the iconographic tradition of Germanicus’ Aratea. In this group of manuscripts, the original late antique set of illustrations was replaced by a new one, in order to give the star catalogue more consistency and to obtain a more effective tool for the study of the constellations.

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Sept. 1, 2017

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March 31, 2017

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Jan. 13, 2017

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978-88-7543-440-3

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978-88-6969-165-2

Keywords: Constellations • Mediaeval astronomy • Aratean tradition • Aratus

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