Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Der Wälsche Gast
Germany, Trier, ca. 1380
MS G.54 fol. 29v

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Thomasin von Zerclaere: Text, Der Wälsche Gast, Book 04.06 -- Sick man, with scroll inscribed DER SIECHE, lays in bed beneath covers. Beside the bed stands man, wearing hat, with scroll inscribed DIR IST SLAIFF UNGESUNT. To right, physician, wearing hood, with scroll inscribed DER ARTZET, with scalpel held in right hand cuts side of man, with scrolls inscribed DER SIECHE and OWE MEISTER MYDENT SANFFTE, wearing drawers, standing with hands bound to column. Diaper pattern in background.