Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Der Wälsche Gast
Germany, Trier, ca. 1380
MS G.54 fol. 22r

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Thomasin von Zerclaere: Text, Der Wälsche Gast, Book 03.10 -- Man, with scrolls inscribed DER LOSER and IC SYT AN DUGENDEN VOLKOMEN, gestures in speech to man, with scrolls inscribed DER HERRE and MINE UNDUGENDE GUT DEZ NIT, seated on bench, with right hand indicating personification of Desire, with scrolls inscribed DIE GIRDE and MIR BEDURFFEN ME GUDES. Beside her stands personification of Stinginess, with scrolls inscribed DAZ ARG and ICH GEBE VIL MYNEN KNECHTEN. To right stands male personification of Inconstancy (?), with scrolls inscribed DER UNSTEDE and ER SAL UCH GERNE SYN UNDERDAN.