Img. ID: 18601
  Illuminated Manuscripts  

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Vol. II, fols. 279v-288: The twelve signs of the zodiac are each depicted within a medallion in the margins of twelve of the eighteen pages (fols. 280v, 281, 281v, 282v, 283v, 284, 285, 285v, 286v, 287, 287v, 288). They illustrate the corresponding Zodiac signs mentioned in the piyyut of Eleazar haKaliri for the prayer of rain  יפתח ארץ לישע (Let the earth open; Davidson, Thesaurus, י 3466) recited on Sukkot. The medallions are framed by a coloured or gold band surrounded by a lace-like wreath or radiating gold dots. The backgrounds are blue, red or tooled gold with all-over geometrical patterns (see Remarks). 

II:286v (diameter: c.48 mm):

Sagittarius (Kislev) is depicted as a young archer nocking his bow with a long arrow held in his right hand. He is dressed in a short belted tunic and tight red hose, on a gold ground decorated with feathery scrolls within a red and green border. The medallion is surrounded with a red and blue floral lace pattern. The bow illustrates the adjacent text of the piyyut: קשת להראות (A bow (or rainbow) to show).