Sagittarius (The Archer), in a late Roman version of Cicero's 'Aratea'

Made in France, probably in Rheims, about
820-840, this manuscript has a copy of a famous poem on the
constellations and planets. The result of several layers of
translation and being added to, the poem is a late Roman version of
a Latin translation done in the 1st century BCE by Cicero. Cicero
had translated a Greek poem written in the 3rd century BCE by
Aratus. Hence, it was known as the 'Aratea…