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Fol. 74: The four astrologers are sitting on the ground in an open landscape with their legs in the stocks.
The caption above reads: "Image of the astrologers who ‘went in two and two‘, 'and they are hidden in prison houses’" (Gen. 7:9 and Is. 42:22; צורת החוזים שנים שנים באו, ובבתי כלאים הוחבאו; Loewe 2004, II:591).
For depictions of the same subject in the other 15th-century manuscripts of Meshal ha-Kadmoni see Appendix 1: line 70. For iconographical comparisons see figs 1-4:
Fig. 1: Medieval Housebook South Germany, (Oberschwaben),1481-1482 Archive of the Duke of Waldburg Wolfegg, WolfeggMansion, No. 2899, fol.11v (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 194) |
Fig. 2: Saturn's Children Woodcut,Germany(after a lost Netherlandish original) c.1470 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 195) |
Fig. 3: Calendar German, c.1445 Berlin, SBPK mgf.244, fol. 175 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 196) |
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Fig. 4: Man in Stocks England, 15th century Oxford, Bodl. Lib. Douce 195, fol. 107 (Gronemann 2006, II:fig. 197) |
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For the Rothschild Miscellany, see IJA 1982/1/155.