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Fol. 33v: The diligent councillor is riding the king's adorned horse between two trees, and holding a large gold and silver crown. His garb has silver edges, and the horse is decorated with a silver bridle, a magenta saddle and a blanket decorated with silver. The caption above reads: “Image of the diligent, loyal one, ‘with a great crown of gold and with a garment of fine linen and purple’" (Esther 8:15; צורת הזריז הנאמן, בעטרת זהב גדולה, ותכריך בוץ וארגמן; Loewe 2004, I:269). The horse's hip and flank are inscribed in grey ink in semi-cursive script, apparently by the artist: (?)הרשל יאת .
For depictions of the same subject in other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see
Appendix 1: line 35. For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/120.