Img. ID: 225045
Fol. 56v: The youth is walking in the open landscape towards a bridge over a moat, leading to a gate in a crenellated city wall. He leaves behind a copse and is counting the city's towers with his right hand. The caption above reads: “Image of the youth among the ‘shady trees’, ‘counting the towers’
(Job 40:21 and Is. 33:18; צורת הבחור בין הצאלים, סופר את המגדלים; Loewe 2004, II:463).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 55. For iconographical comparisons see figs. 1-2:
Fig. 1: Petrarch, Sonnets Venice, 1470 Brescia, Bibl. Queriniana, inc. G.V.15, fol. 38v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 104 |
Fig. 2: Dietrich of Bern Alsace, c.1440 Heidelberg, Univ.Bibl. cpg.324. fol. 296v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 173) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/141.