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English: Four elements (earth, water, air, fire), seasons, solstices, equinoxes, signs of the zodiac and ages of man. Miniature from English medieval manuscript MS Oxford St John's College 17, folium 7 verso. There is an Ogham inscription in the centre of Byrhtferth's diagram: https://web.archive.org/web/20151123203355/http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/12/byrhtferths-ogham-enigma.html. In 2023 at Oxford Digital Bodleian special collection https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/66a78997-ab65-4059-a9d3-d08a0bba067c/surfaces/688e1e71-6e0e-4153-8d94-1f9c34058c86/ St John's College MS 17 Thorney Computus, date 1110.
Polski: Cztery żywioły, pory roku i znaki zodiaku. Miniatura z angielskiego manuskryptu z końca XI wieku.
Date About 1000 AD by Byrhtferth. Copy in MS Oxford St John's College 17, fol. 7v in 1110 or 1111
Source Version from 2nd January 2019 (with real colours) from original website of the University of Oxford: http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0stjohn01--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4----dtt--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-MS+17--00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL3.1&d=stjohn001-aaa.26. - Version from 23rd June 2010 scanned from Polish magazine "Mówią Wieki", 12/2009, p. 32
Author Byrhtferth
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current14:46, 2 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 14:46, 2 January 2019611 × 821 (242 KB)RunologeNow real Colors. Compare original page: http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0stjohn01--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4----dtt--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-MS+17--00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL3.1&d=stjohn001-aaa.26
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11:39, 23 June 2010Thumbnail for version as of 11:39, 23 June 20101,247 × 1,734 (2.18 MB)Gytha{{Information |Description={{en|1=Four elements, seasons and Zodiac. Miniature from English medieval manuscript. }} {{pl|1=Cztery żywioły, pory roku i znaki zodiaku. Miniatura z angielskiego manuskryptu z końca XI wieku. }} |Source=scanned from Polish

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