Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Der Wälsche Gast
Germany, Trier, ca. 1380
MS G.54 fol. 27r

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1) Thomasin von Zerclaere: Text, Der Wälsche Gast, Book 4.01 -- Four figures, including two seated, support vertical chain of thirteen figures, each with hands on shoulders of one below. Above is inscribed DIE IST DER UNDUGENDE KEDEN. Words are inscribed flanking the stacked figures: KUSCHEIT, RICHTUM, UBERMUT, HERSCHAFT, SINACHEIT (sic), MACHT, UPPIKEIT, RAME, DORHEIT, ADEL, and GELUST. Below are the words TRACHEIT, LECKERHEIT, DRUNCKENHEIT, and ARGELIST (sic)
2) Thomasin von Zerclaere: Text, Der Wälsche Gast, Book 4.01 -- Personification of Desire, labeled DIE GIRDE, sits on bench. Below her is personification of Wealth (?), with scroll inscribed DER RICHE, with her hands on shoulders of woman, possibly with scroll inscribed DER RICHTUM, both seated.