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Fol. 19v: A goat on the left and a ram on the right confront each other in a landscape with four small trees. The caption above reads: "Image of the young goat speaking to the ram, ‘not by might nor by power’"
(Zech. 4:6;צורת הצפיר מדבר אל האיל, לא בכח ולא בחיל ; Loewe 2004, I:159).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 23. This depiction is probably based on another pair of talking animals in a similar position, for example the lion and the ass in the woodcut of Der Edelstein, as it appears in the copy from Bamberg, 1461 (fig. 1; see Gronemann 2006, I:190).
Fig. 1: Ulrich Boner, Bamberg, 1461. Wolfenbüttel, HAB 16.1 Eth 20, p. 19 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 147) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/108.