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Fol. 24: A shepherd is sacrificing a ram which is lying on its back on a large altar, its limbs tied together. The shepherd, dressed in a short tunic with a satchel hanging across his body, is touching the ram with a stick and pointing at it with his index finger, offering it to save his sick son from death. The caption above reads: "Image of the shepherd ‘sacrificing and burning incense’ ‘upon the wood that is upon the altar’"
(II Kings, 12:3 and Lev. 1:8; צורת הרועה מקטר ומזבח, על העצים אשר על המזבח; Loewe 2004, I:199).
For depictions of the same subject in other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see
Apendix 1: line 28. The story and the depiction are an allusion to the Sacrifice of Isaac (figs. 1-6; Gronemann 2006, I:231-233).
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Fig. 1: Mishne Torah, North Italy, 15th century, New York, private collection, fol. 1 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 217)
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Fig. 2: Velislav Bible, Bohemia, 14th century, Prague Univ.Lib. MS XXII c 124, fol. 22 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 218) |
Fig. 3: Mahzor, Germany, first half of 14 century, Oxford, Bodl. Lib. Or.140, fol. 35v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 219) |
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Fig. 4: Second Nuremberg Haggadah Franconia, 1465-1470, Jerusalem, Schocken Library,MS 24087, fol. 31 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 220) |
Fig. 5: Book of Hours, calendar France, c.1300. Besançon Bibliothèque, MS 54 (Hansen 1985, fig. 278) (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 221) |
Fig. 6: Yahuda Haggadah, Franconia, 1465-70. Jerusalem, IM 180/50, fol. 16v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 222) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/113.