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Fol. 9: A fox sejant erect in the open landscape is begging for mercy from a lion passant in front of him.

The above caption reads: "Image of the fox confessing his sins, pleading before the lion his master

(צורת השועל מתודה על עוניו, ומתחנן לפני האריה אדוניו; Loewe 2004, I:75).

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Munich Meshal ha-Kadmoni | Unknown
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Fol. 9
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Germany | Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
| Cod.hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107)
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For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 9. See also Gronemann 2006, I:63, 65. For other iconographical examples see fig. 1-2:

   

Fig. 1: Konrad von Megenburg, Buch der Natur Woodcut,Augsburg, 1475.  

(Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 145)  

Fig. 2: Calendar, Augsburg, 1458. Berlin, SBPK mgf.557, fol. 11v

(Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 165)  

 

For the Rothschild Miscellany see IJA 1982/1/97.

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