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Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot
Cracow
Astrological Illustrations of Florian Psalter
(The Problem of Individuality within Serial
Production)
The representations in the margins of the fist part of the Florian Psalter (to 60 v), the
origin of which is connected with the person of Queen Hedwig Angevin, defined till now
by the general term drôlerie, present different astrological images 1. They are signs of
zodiac and constellations as well as paranatellonta or the guiding stars and thus con-
stellations or their parts which accompany three decanates of the sign.
Identification of these representations was possible on the grounds of the Greek
(Arat, Ptolemy, Teukros, Antiochos), Arabian (Albumasar) and mediaeval (Michael
Scot) astrological treatises, described scientifically mainly by A. Bouche-Leclerque,
F. Boll and W. Gundel2. The images of the astrological representations were collected
1 Interpretation of the astrological subjects in art the history os art owes to the school of Abby War-
burg. The attepapts to reflect these subjects and their Christian interpretation in mediaeval art were
continued on the basis of portal sculptures and representations on the fonts (C. L. Herre, Okkulte Symbolik
des 13. Jahrhunderts, Freiburg 1922. — W. von Blankenburg, Heilige und dämonische Tiere. Leipzig 1943,
pp. 214-246). There are only occasional references to the occurrence of the astrological representations
in the margins of the psalters and books of hours (E. Panofsky — F. Saxl, Classical Mythology in Mediaeval
Art, Metropolitan Museum Studies IV, 1933, p. 248. — J. J. Tikkanen, Die Psalterillustration im Mittel-
alter. In: Abdandländische Psalterillustration 1/3. Leipzig, p. 238. — Blankenburg, o. c., p. 185. — M. Vieli-
lard — Troiekouroff, Art Carolingien et Art Roman Parisiens, Cahiers Archéologiques XVI, 1966, p. 86. —
W. Härtner, Notes on Picatrix. In: Oriens — Occidens. Hildesheim 1968, p. 418. — K. Weizmann, Illustra-
tions in Roll and.Codex. A Study os the Origin and Method os Text Illustration. Princeton 1970, p. 144. —
A. Dominguez Rodriguez, Iconograsia de los signos del zodiaco en seis Libros de Horas de la Biblioteca Nacio-
nal, Revista de la Universidad Complutense XX, 1973, p. 61). Among different subjects of miniatures
in the margins of the mediaeval manuscripts compiled by L.M. C. Randall (Images in the Margins os
Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1966) there is no reference to the astrological representa-
tions. — E. éniezynska-Stolot, Astrologiczne ilustracje Psalterza Florianskiego, S PAN XXVIII (1-2),
1984, p. 161—162.
* A. Bouché-Leclerque, L'astrologie grecque, Paris 1899. — F. Boll, Sphaera. Neue griechische Texte
und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternbilder, Leipzig 1903. — W. Gundel, Dekane und Dekanstern-
bilder. Studien der Bibliothek Warburg XIX. Glückstadt und Hamburg 1936. — W. Gundel und H. G. Gun-
del, Astrologumena. Wiesbaden 1966.
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Cracow
Astrological Illustrations of Florian Psalter
(The Problem of Individuality within Serial
Production)
The representations in the margins of the fist part of the Florian Psalter (to 60 v), the
origin of which is connected with the person of Queen Hedwig Angevin, defined till now
by the general term drôlerie, present different astrological images 1. They are signs of
zodiac and constellations as well as paranatellonta or the guiding stars and thus con-
stellations or their parts which accompany three decanates of the sign.
Identification of these representations was possible on the grounds of the Greek
(Arat, Ptolemy, Teukros, Antiochos), Arabian (Albumasar) and mediaeval (Michael
Scot) astrological treatises, described scientifically mainly by A. Bouche-Leclerque,
F. Boll and W. Gundel2. The images of the astrological representations were collected
1 Interpretation of the astrological subjects in art the history os art owes to the school of Abby War-
burg. The attepapts to reflect these subjects and their Christian interpretation in mediaeval art were
continued on the basis of portal sculptures and representations on the fonts (C. L. Herre, Okkulte Symbolik
des 13. Jahrhunderts, Freiburg 1922. — W. von Blankenburg, Heilige und dämonische Tiere. Leipzig 1943,
pp. 214-246). There are only occasional references to the occurrence of the astrological representations
in the margins of the psalters and books of hours (E. Panofsky — F. Saxl, Classical Mythology in Mediaeval
Art, Metropolitan Museum Studies IV, 1933, p. 248. — J. J. Tikkanen, Die Psalterillustration im Mittel-
alter. In: Abdandländische Psalterillustration 1/3. Leipzig, p. 238. — Blankenburg, o. c., p. 185. — M. Vieli-
lard — Troiekouroff, Art Carolingien et Art Roman Parisiens, Cahiers Archéologiques XVI, 1966, p. 86. —
W. Härtner, Notes on Picatrix. In: Oriens — Occidens. Hildesheim 1968, p. 418. — K. Weizmann, Illustra-
tions in Roll and.Codex. A Study os the Origin and Method os Text Illustration. Princeton 1970, p. 144. —
A. Dominguez Rodriguez, Iconograsia de los signos del zodiaco en seis Libros de Horas de la Biblioteca Nacio-
nal, Revista de la Universidad Complutense XX, 1973, p. 61). Among different subjects of miniatures
in the margins of the mediaeval manuscripts compiled by L.M. C. Randall (Images in the Margins os
Gothic Manuscripts. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1966) there is no reference to the astrological representa-
tions. — E. éniezynska-Stolot, Astrologiczne ilustracje Psalterza Florianskiego, S PAN XXVIII (1-2),
1984, p. 161—162.
* A. Bouché-Leclerque, L'astrologie grecque, Paris 1899. — F. Boll, Sphaera. Neue griechische Texte
und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternbilder, Leipzig 1903. — W. Gundel, Dekane und Dekanstern-
bilder. Studien der Bibliothek Warburg XIX. Glückstadt und Hamburg 1936. — W. Gundel und H. G. Gun-
del, Astrologumena. Wiesbaden 1966.
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