A13203:405
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The .xli. Chapter.
The .xli. Capter.
And it fortuned at .ij. years end / that Pharaoh dreamed / and thought that he stood by a rivers side / and that there came out of the river .vij. goodly kine and fat fleshed / and fed in a meadow. And him though that .vij. other kine came up after them out of the river evil favoured and lean fleshed and stood by the other upon the brink ⟨p. lix⟩of the river. And the evil favoured and lean fleshed kine ate up the .vij. well favoured and fat kine: and •e awoke their with.
ANd it fortuned at .ij. yeres end / that Ph•rao dreamed / and thought that he stode by a ryuers syde / and that there came out of the ryver .vij. goodly kyne and fatt fleshed / and fedd in a medowe. And him though that .vij. other kyne came vp after them out of the ryver evelfauored and leane fleshed and stode by the other vpon the brynke ⟨p. lix⟩of the ryuer. And the evill favored and lenefleshed kyne ate vp the .vij. welfauored and fatt kyne: and •e awoke their with.
And he slept again and dreamed the second time / that .vij. ears of corn grew upon one stalk rank and goodly. And that .vij. thin ears blasted with the wind / sprung up after them: and that the .vij. thin ears devoured the .vij. rank and full ears. And than Pharaoh awaked: and see / here is his dream. When the morning came / his spirit was troubled And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and all the wise men there of / and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpret it unto Pharaoh.