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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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,

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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

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Classical images – Roman
Dioscuri
Silver coin from Agrigento
Agrigento, Museo archeologico
Hadian with Disocuri on rev
From Phoenecia (Tripoli mint), 117-38 AD
Cf. vcoins.com
Helmeted head of Roma with Dioscuri
Denarius from the Roman mint, 207BC
cf: Frajola.com
Dioscuri with Janus-form heads
Silver quagrigatus, or diadrachm
Roman Republic, 225-212 BC
cf: Wikipedia/quardigatus
Gemini
Helmeted head of Roma with Dioscuri
Denarius from the Roman mint, 136 BC
cf: Frajola.com
Constantine with Dioscuri
Gold aureus
From Aquileia, 294-303 AD
cf. Numismatics.org
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Classical images – Roman
Detail of one of the Dioscuri
Meleagar Sarcophagus from Dyrrachium (Durres, Albania), 2nd C AD
Istanbul Archeological Museum (inv. 2100 T cat Mendel 4)
cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
Gemini
Jupiter and Juno Dolicheni with Isis, Serapis, the Dioscuri,
Sol (Sun) and Luna (Moon).
Roman (from the Aventine Hill) , c. 250 AD
Capitoline Museums, Rome. Inv. No. 9750.
cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
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Classical images – Roman Gemini

Meleagar Sarcophagus
2nd quarter of the 3rd Cent. AD
Pisa, Antiquarium, Monumental Cemetery
Cf. Flikr/Egisto Sani

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Classical images – Roman Gemini

Tabula Bianchini
Rome, 2nd C AD
Paris Musée du Louvre

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Late classical images – Byzantine
Meleagar Dish
Constantinople, 6th C
Munich, Bayerisches National Museum
Gemini
One of the Dioskouroi
from the Octagon, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki. Early 4th century AD.
Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum. (inv. no. 6692)
cf: David John©/ My Favourite Planet
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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

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Late classical images – Byzantine Gemini

Dioscuri on the reverse of a small AE4

Dioscuri in background
of Constantine II
From the Basil Menologion, c. 1000
c. 330 AD
Vatican, BAV, Vat grec 1613
St Theodore Stratilates
From the Basil Menologion, c. 1000
Vatican, BAV, Vat grec 1613

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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

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Late classical images – Roman Gemini

Castor and Pollux Castor and Pollux

Rome, Campidoglio Naples, Museo archeologico
Cf: David Jonh/My favourite planet

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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
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
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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
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

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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
n.b.– mbracing, with spears 49
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)

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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
same 58
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

140