Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Saturn / Single figure / Head not veiled, without wings, without scythe or sickle

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Cycles / Ptolemy / al-Sufi / Sufi Latinus / Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal, lat. 1369

SOCIAL LIFE

Professions and trades / Financial professions / Accountant

Further details

Artist or creator

German (southern)

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1369

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

al-Sufi. Book of the fixed stars (Latin translation). Folio: 144v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl, Saturn and melancholy, London 1964, p. 206 and fig. 43; cf. Eric Zafran, Saturn and the Jews, Journal of the Warburg and Courtald Institute 42 (1979), pp. 16-27, p. 20, pl. 5d

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

Contact

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