Wonders of the East and Astronomical-Calendrical Treatise

...of fifteen stars original: "stellarum quindecim", as is said here concerning the Lion The constellation Leo.

[Illustration: A medieval illumination of the constellation Leo, depicted as a stylized walking lion with circular dots representing individual stars. The lion is framed within a red and white border against a faded blue background wash.]

Aratus A Greek poet (c. 315–240 BCE) whose famous work, the Phaenomena, was the primary source for medieval knowledge about the constellations says this Virgin is Astraea Astraea was the celestial goddess of justice; according to myth, she lived among humans during the Golden Age but fled to the heavens as the world became corrupt and...

Concerning the Virgin.