Claudii Caesaris Arati Phaenomena
A ninth-century Latin manuscript copy of Aratus's Phaenomena, a Greek poem on the stars in Latin verse, probably made for a learned monastic or scholarly reader in Carolingian Europe. Its pen-and-ink drawings show constellation figures with star dots marked in red over the bodies, with brief Latin captions beneath, the figures drawn in loose, quick lines with little shading. A designer might take the economical linework and red star-point marking as a model for simple, schematic diagrams of figures in the sky.
