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the owner's name as Thoruin Benedikt's daughter. Above the signs are their Latin names with Runes ; and beneath, the Latin names of the months in Runes. Engraved in Du Chaillu, ' The Viking Age,' 1889, vol. ii. p. 254. Formerly in Holum CathedraL so it may have been the episcopal chair (cf. No. 51). In Copenhagen Museum. Ninth century.

235. Carved on the walrus ivory head of a tau-shaped episcopal staff or crozier, of the twelfth century. A facsimile in artificial ivory has been made, and a photograph taken. All in the S.K.M.

236. An engraving of a Runic zodiac is in Du Chaillu, 'The Viking Age,' 1889.

237. The signs are found on some war implements. In Du Chaillu.

Italian Zodiac.

238. "Tablecloth of linen, with border composed of squares of 'lacis' or darned netting, in which are represented birds, animals, zodiacal signs, &c., and of squares of cut work, 'reticella.' The border is edged with needle-point Vandykes. Sixteenth cen- tury. In S.K.M., No. 1313, 1877. Is." Official label of photograph. This is evidently the altar cover for a small or private chapel, and as a lace zodiac appears to be unique. There are only twelve squares. Leo, Sagittarius, Virgo, Scorpio, Turdus Solitarius, are plain. The others look like peacock, monkey, cock. Three squares have flowers, perhaps from ignorance of the signs, or being worn have been replaced by ornament, perhaps worked by nuns. The space for the tabernacle is left blank, the squares surrounding it on three sides. No. 11,318.

German Zodiacs.

239. In mosaic, on three sides of the altar in the crypt of S. Gereon, Cologne. Eleventh century. Ann. Arch., xvii. ; Archceologia, xliv.

240. Round the nude figure of a man in a German block-book. Leipzig, 1490. In the King's Library, B.M.

241. In the Archceologm (1883, xlvii. 337, pi. viii.) are engraved eight coloured signs from an astronomico-astrological MS. entitled ' Varia Curiosa.' Fifteenth century. In the possession of Robert Brown, jun., Esq.

242. On the clock at Strasbourg Cathedral. It is about twenty feet high, dating from 1574. Cassell's Journal, 1898.

243. A similar clock is seen at Ratisbon Cathedral. Cassell's Journal, 1898.

244. In a printed calendar in Bede, * Men- si um Notse.' Cologne. Sixteenth century. Archceologia, xliv.

245. Round the face of a clock in chased and gilt bronze case, on rectangular base,

with two dials, one for astronomical pur- poses. Augsburg. Sixteenth century. In S.K.M., No. 638. Photograph No. 5989. Ob- tained 1865.

246. In the B.M. is a drawing by Holbein of a suspended sundial with the signs on it. In Cassell's Magazine of Art, November, 1891 p. 133.

247. In the National Gallery is a picture by Holbein called 'The Ambassadors,' in which is a sundial with the zodiac. In Cassell's Magazine of Art, November, 1891, p. 133.

248. In fresco by Steinle on the wall of the choir, Cologne Cathedral ; each sign has an angel. Archceologia, xliv. ; 'Diet. Arch.'

249. There is an engraving of a zodiac on the Torquitum, made by Apianus, Professor of Mathematics at Ingolstadt. In Cassell's Magazine of Art, November, 1891, p. 4. He died 1552.

250. A zodiac is said to be on the outside of Vienna Cathedral.

French Zodiacs.

251. In the Observatoire at Paris is a room formerly inhabited by Cardinal Richelieu, with the signs of the zodiac engraved on the floor. There in 1844. Strickland, 'Life of Agnes Strickland,' 1887, p. 130.

252. In the MS. Department, Grand Gallery, Mazariri Palace, Paris, case xi., No. 179, con- tains a ' Treatise on the Computation of Chro- nology.' Eleventh century. In it is an illuminated zodiac : 1, green fish ; 2, red ram ; 3, green bull ; 4, two soldiers having spears with feet crossed 5, red and green lobster ; 6, red lion ; 7, woman with sheaf and balance ; 8, scales ; 9, frog with long tail ; 10, centaur and bow ; 11, fish with goat head ; 12, woman with vase pouring Avater.

English Zodiacs.

253. Very beautifully drawn in a Saxon MS. of the astronomical poem ' Phenomena ' of Aratus. In the B.M. Reproduced in Archceologia, vol. xxvi. Tenth century.

254. Depicted in a Saxon calendar, with the months. In B.M. MS. Julius A. vi. In Archwologia, vol. xliv. p. 139.

255. Round the west Norman doorway of Iffley Church, Oxfordshire. Engraved in Britton and Skelton. .

256. Round the Norman doorway of St. Margaret's Church, Walragate, York. Re- moved from the hospital of St. Nicholas without Walmgate Bar, at the dissolution of monasteries (Drake) -about 1645 (Savage). Between the signs are figures emblematic of the months. In Drake, 'Eboracum,' 1736,