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Fol. 30v: A bride in a magenta dress is led forward by her groom Heber on her right and a youth on her left. Behind is a woman in a long dress with a cloth over her arm, while a musician on the left is playing the lute. The caption above reads: “Image of the groom and adorned bride, the guests and members of the party (צורת החתן והכלה החדורה והקרואים ובני החבורה; Loewe 2004, I:243).
For depictions of the same subject in other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see
Appendix 1: line 33. For other iconograpical comparisons see figs. 1 (composition) and 2-3 (lute player):
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Fig. 1: Life of Christ, Alsace, 1450-1452, Karlsruhe, BLB MS Lichtenthal 70, fol. 8
(Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 4) |
Fig. 2: Calendar, South Swabia or Constance, 1443Munich, BSB, cgm.28,fol. 31. © Munich, BSB (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 55) |
Fig. 3: Calendar, Upper Rhine, 1446, London, BL Add.17987, fol. 86v. (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 57) |
For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/118.