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Fol. 76v: A stork is walking in an open landscape between two trees, holding a frog in its beak. However, according to the caption the stork is flying. The caption above reads: "Image of the stork flying, holding the frog in its beak (צורת החסידה מעופפת, והצפרדע בין שיניה נאספת; Loewe 2004, II:611).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 72. For iconographical comparisons see figs. 1-3:
Fig. 1: Miscellany Regensburg, 1440-1460 Munich, BSB cgm.3974, fol. 146 © Munich, BSB (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 65) |
Fig. 2: Bestiary England, early 13th century Oxford, Bodl. Lib. Ashmole 1551, fol. 22 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 156) |
Fig. 3: Ulrich Boner, Der Edelstein Augsburg, 1449 Augsburg Univ.Bibl. I.3.2.3, fol. 22 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 157) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/158-9.