Beinecke MS 404
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Wow, amazing image!
A great parallel for the roundels we see in 57v and especially 86v4.
There seems to be a tradition in Jewish manuscript art of representing some of the figures with their back to the viewer, 
This image has some too, incidentally also from a Rothschild collection, although the similarity is not as good as the image you posted:
Rotschild Mahzor, JTS MS 8892, Florence, 1490, f 395v
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5Not sure if the direct link above will work, the image is accessible via the website only once you agree to some pretty drastic copyright rules and right clicks on the image are disabled)
I have no idea if there is any meaning or specific reason why these figures are represented from the back.
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Beinecke MS 404 - by ReneZ - 13-06-2017, 02:17 PM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by VViews - 13-06-2017, 03:20 PM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by Anton - 13-06-2017, 04:00 PM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by MarcoP - 13-06-2017, 04:40 PM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by davidjackson - 13-06-2017, 06:23 PM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by MarcoP - 14-06-2017, 09:31 AM
RE: Beinecke MS 404 - by davidjackson - 14-06-2017, 05:10 PM

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