Fol. 34: The sluggard councillor is sitting between two trees with his two legs chained to the stocks, dressed in simple cotton and holding in his left hand his dirty royal garment as described in the story. The caption above reads: "Image of the sluggard, his bones covered with shame, ‘for his hands refuse to labour’"
(Prov. 21:25; צורת העצל ובושה עצמותיו מכסות/ כי מאנו ידיו לעשות; Loewe 2004, I:271).
For depictions of the same subject in other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see
Appendix 1: line 36. For other iconographical comparisons see figs. 1-4:
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Fig. 1: Medieval Housebook South Germay(Oberswabien), 1481-1482 Archive of the Duke of Waldburg Wolfegg, No. 2899, fol. 11v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 194)
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Fig. 2: Blockbook German (after a lost Netherlandish original), c.1470
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Fig. 3: Calendar German, c.1445 Berlin, SBB mgf.244, fol. 175 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 196) |
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Fig. 4: Man in Stocks England, 15th century Oxford, Bodl. Lib. Douce 195, fol. 107 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 197) |
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For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/121.