Gallery
Images from a 12th century manuscript of Macrobius' Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (Parchment, 50 ff.; 23.9 × 14 cm; Southern France). Date: ca. 1150. Source: Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, ms. NKS 218 4°.
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Initial E shaped in the form of a writing man, probably representing Macrobius himself.
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The five climes of the Earth. Frozen climes in yellow; Temperate climes in blue; Torrid clime in red.
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Sketch map showing the inhabited northern region separated from the antipodes by an imagined ocean at the equator.
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Diagram showing a lunar eclipse.
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Diagram showing a solar eclipse.
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