Aratea - Facsimile Editions and Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Of all astronomical manuscripts in the period of the Carolingian Renaissance, the Aratea from the Leiden library is the most famous. In the first half of the 9th century, at the time of Louis the Pious (814-840), the Aratea was commissioned from an unknown artist who copied a manuscript from late Antiquity.
It is thus assumed that the manuscript was made to the order of Empress Judith, second wife of Emperor Louis the Pious, a great patron of sciences and the arts.
The artist’s idea to dissociate the picture from the written word and to present each miniature on an individual page is a revolutionary concept. It would take centuries before the best painters rediscovered the art of enlivening a figure with such modest pictorial means as our unknown illuminator has succeeded to do.

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Facsimile edition published by Faksimile Verlag in 1987.

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