Fol. 4v: A king’s officer is beating a man who posed as the fool. The man bends to the ground, trying to protect himself with his right hand. The officer standing above him is brandishing his club in his right hand and grabbing the back of the fool’s coat with his left. The caption above reads: “Image of the flogged man crying out in pain, while the flogger stands over him” (צורת המוכה צועק בחבליו, והמכה עומד עוליו(!)"; Loewe 2004, I:51).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 3. Our depiction is the most violent and expressive amongst the other manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni (Gronemann 2006, I:235); however there is still a similarity to one of the copies (Oxford1) where the flogger is violently grabbing the victim’s hair (Gronemann 2006, I:209-211).
For other iconographical examples see figs. 1-4:
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Fig. 1: Hugo von Trimberg, Der Renner Regensburg, 1431, Heidelberg, Univ.Bibl. cpg.471, fol. 34v, (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 190) |
Fig. 2: First German Calendar, Woodcut,Augsburg, c.1480, (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 191) |
Fig. 3: Murphy Haggadah, Italy, c.1470.Jerusalem, NLI Heb. 406130, fol. 5 . (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 192) |
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Fig. 4: Tegernsee Haggadah, Southern Germany, before 1489. Munich, BSB Cod.hebr. 200, fol. 12v. © Munich, BSB (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 193) |
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For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/91.