page_title: Somnium Scipionis
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Somnium Scipionis / Gallery
context_page_description: The Dream of Scipio, written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he oversaw the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC.
context_section_description: Images from a 12th-century manuscript of Macrobius' Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (Parchment, 50 ff.; 23.9 × 14 cm; Southern France). Date: ca. 1150. Source: Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, ms. NKS 218 4°.
caption: The Universe, the Earth in the centre, surrounded by the seven planets within the zodiacal signs.
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