Exploring the Relevance of the Star-positions in the Medieval Illuminated

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1139
dc.contributor.author	Zucker Arnaud
dc.title	Exploring the Relevance of the Star-positions in the Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts of Hyginus’ De Astronomia
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper analyzes the agreement between pictures and text in the 20 extant manuscripts of Hyginus’ Astronomy which are illuminated and marked with stars, the majority of which date from the second half of the 15th century. It focuses on the number and position of the stars on the constellation’s figures, and systematically inventories in each manuscript all discrepancies between picture and text. The existence of independent constellation’s albums and the disconnection of pictor’s and scriptor’s activities could suggest a great mismatch of the two parts of illuminated manuscripts. The results of the investigation on these manuscripts are in fact more ambiguous. It actually appears that in some cases star’s positions precisely match the readings of a manuscript and lead to the conclusion that star-positioning should have sometimes been a secondary process adjusted to the very text of the illustrated manuscript.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antichistica
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/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-440-3/exploring-the-relevance-of-the-star-positions-in-t/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-9
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	Ancient astronomy
dc.subject	Ancient astronomy
dc.subject	Ancient constellations
dc.subject	Ancient constellations
dc.subject	Astrothesy
dc.subject	Astrothesy
dc.subject	Hyginus
dc.subject	Hyginus
dc.subject	Illuminated manuscripts
dc.subject	Illuminated manuscripts
dc.subject	Medieval astronomy
dc.subject	Medieval astronomy
dc.subject	Star iconography
dc.subject	Star iconography

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Exploring the Relevance of the Star-positions in the Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts of Hyginus’ De Astronomia

Arnaud Zucker Université de Nice, France

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This paper analyzes the agreement between pictures and text in the 20 extant manuscripts of Hyginus’ Astronomy which are illuminated and marked with stars, the majority of which date from the second half of the 15th century. It focuses on the number and position of the stars on the constellation’s figures, and systematically inventories in each manuscript all discrepancies between picture and text. The existence of independent constellation’s albums and the disconnection of pictor’s and scriptor’s activities could suggest a great mismatch of the two parts of illuminated manuscripts. The results of the investigation on these manuscripts are in fact more ambiguous. It actually appears that in some cases star’s positions precisely match the readings of a manuscript and lead to the conclusion that star-positioning should have sometimes been a secondary process adjusted to the very text of the illustrated manuscript.

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01 Settembre 2017

Accettato

31 Marzo 2017

Presentato

13 Gennaio 2017

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978-88-7543-440-3

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978-88-6969-165-2

Keywords: Star iconography • Medieval astronomy • Ancient astronomy • Astrothesy • Hyginus • Illuminated manuscripts • Ancient constellations

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-9

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