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Fol. 54v: A dove on the left and a raven are flanking a tree. The caption above reads: “Image of the dove speaking to the raven who is praising her, ‘and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels’ “(Is. 61:10;
צורת היונה מדברת על העורב מהלליה, וככלה תעדה כליה; Loewe 2004, II:449).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 53. For iconographical comparisons see figs. 1-3:
Fig. 1: Ulrich Boner, Der Edelstein Augsburg, 1447 Heidelberg, Univ.Bibl. cpg.314, fol. 10v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 37) |
Fig. 2: Ulrich von Pottenstein, Fables of Cyrillus Augsburg, 1467 Berlin, SBPK mgf.641, fol. 30v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 159) |
Fig. 3: Ulrich Boner, Der Edelstein Swabia, 1410-1420 Heidelberg, Univ.Bibl. cpg.794, fol. 67 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 227) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/139.