Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Der Wälsche Gast
Germany, Trier, ca. 1380
MS G.54 fol. 1r

See more information »

Thomasin von Zerclaere: Text, Der Wälsche Gast, Book 01.01 -- Male personfication of Piety, wearing hat, with scrolls inscribed DAZ IST DIE FROMEKEIT and STANT UFF TRACHEIT, stands behind man, possibly personification of Wisdom, with scrolls inscribed LIG STILLE LIG STILLE and DAZ IS DIE WISHEIT, grasping hair of bare-chested personfication of Sloth, with scrolls inscribed DIE TRACHEIT and IA IST IZ NOCH NIT TACK, laying in bed beneath covers, with left hand extended to hands of hooded man, with scrolls inscribed DAZ IST DIE IUGE (sic).
Initial I with marginal extenders terminating in winged dragon and ivy-rinceaux ornament.