A13203:412
[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.
And I saw again in my dream .vij. ears spring out of one stalk full and good / and .vij. other ears withered / thin and blasted with wind / spring up after them. And the thin ears devoured the .vij. good ears. And I have told it unto the soothsayers ⟨p. lx⟩/ but no man can tell me what it meaneth.
And I sawe agayne in my dreame .vij. eares sprynge out of one stalk full and good / and .vij. other eares wytherd / thinne and blasted with wynde / sprynge vp after them. And the thynne eares deuowred the .vij. good eares. And I haue tolde it vnto the sothsayers ⟨p. lx⟩/ but no man can tell me what it meaneth.
Then Joseph said unto Pharaoh: both Pharaoh's dreams are one. And god doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do. The vij. good kine are. vij years: & the .vij. good ears are .vij. year also / and is but one dream. Likewise / the .vij. thin and evil favoured kine that came out after them / are .vij. years: and the .vij. empty and blasted ears shall be vij. years of hunger. This is that which I said unto Pharaoh / that God doth show Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Then Joseph sayde vnto Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one. And god doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to do. The vij. good kyne are. vij yeres: & the .vij. good eares are .vij. yere also / and is but one dreame. Lykewyse / the .vij. thynne and euell fauored kyne that came out after them / are .vij. yeares: and the .vij. emptie and blasted eares shalbe vij. yeares of hunger. This is that which I sayde vnto Pharao / that God doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to doo.