Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r

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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
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MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
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Bodleian Library

This final northern Italian example of the zodiac man is much later than the others in this unit, though like the majority of medieval zodiac men it is situated in a manuscript of computistical and astrological texts. It is thought to have been drawn after a classical bronze statue of a youth found at Magdalensberg in 1502, a copy of which is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (see 'external links'). Instead of including symbols of the zodiac, the name of each sign is written on the appropriate body part.