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Fol. 22: A husband and wife are sitting at a table set with food and bread. The bearded man is wearing a magenta coloured cap; the woman is dressed in a magenta garment and yellow headgear. The caption above reads: “Image of the man enjoying himself at his table, ‘and upon his right hand did stand his wife the queen' ” (Ps. 45:10; צורת האיש מתענג על שולחנו ואשתו נצבה שגל לימינו; Loewe 2004:177). Depicting her eating in this scene contradicts the text, where she is serving the meal to the husband. However, this is an error by the artist who replaced this iconography with that of the Youth of Zion (fol. 55v).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmon,
see Appendix 1: line 25. In two of these (Oxford2 andMilan) the wife is serving the husband (Gronemann 2006, I:198). For other iconographical comparisons see figs. 1-3:
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Fig. 1: Calendar, Augsburg, 1458. Berlin, SBPK mgf.557, fol. 1v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 44) |
Fig. 2: Calendar, Augsburg, 1458. Berlin, SBPK mgf.557, fol. 5 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 48) |
Fig. 3: Siddur, Ulm, 1450. Parma, Bibl. Pal. 2895, fol. 235 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 110) |
For depiction of the same subject in the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/110.