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THE GROTESQUES
a group using fictitious names; they appeared in brown Schembart
costumes covered with small brass discs hung on threads:
Castell Fugger, sambt Ettlichen mit blindten Namen, sein beklaidet
Gewest, Jnn Lauder Mestnen Flinderlein, ein Jedes an ein Trettlein
eines fingers lanng gehenngt, hat wundterlich Schon gesehen, auch sein
darundter ettlich gewest, welche yber Jhr gantze Klaidtung, mit Kleinen
Wiirfflein, haben gedragen/.
The first costume described here is illustrated in a small miniature
below the text, the second, a black Schembart costume covered
with white dice, is pictured in the miniature on f. gir (Fig. 28).
The dice are arranged in a dual pattern in which rows of large
dice placed at right angles alternate with rows of smaller dice in a
diamond design. All the Ldujer of this group are masked and wear
feathered hats, except the last one, whose hat, like his costume,
is also decorated with dice. The Ldujer in the star costume has
both the staff and the fireworks-sheaf, the others have one or the
other.
On the verso of f. 91 a group of seven supplementary costumes
worn in the Schembartlauj of 1539 are introduced by the follow-
ing caption: "Diese nach beschriebn Gesellschafft sein Jm 1539.
Jar Jm Schempart mit gelauffen alB erstlich Christoff KreB Jobst
Haller." Below these names the coats of arms of the Kress and
Haller families are figured, and the blue, red, and white mi-parti
costume illustrated in the miniature on f. 92r is described briefly:
"Warn beklaidtet Jnn Ferbers Wollen, Die aine seidten Plau, Die
ander Rodt, Vnnd WeiB." Most of the costumes in this group are
of a more imaginative and extravagant nature. "Anthoni Zolner"
and "Gberg Tuecher" arrayed themselves in green silk strips, as
figured in the miniature on f. 93r (Fig. 29), hung with gilded
acorns and pine-cones in a decorative design.119 The note on the
costume is put below the coats of arms on f. 92V: "Warn Jnn
Grun Toldte120 Flidtseidten bekleidtet mit Vergulten Aiglen, Vnnd
Danntzzapffen behengt." Folio 93V is headed by the names
"Sebalt Geuger" and "Georg Schenckh"; only the Geuger coat of
119 Cf. Schwabik, p. 83 for a photograph of a pine-cone costume worn by the
"Lagge-Scheller" in the Imst Schemenlaufen.
120 Toldte, cf. Grimm, Wb., II, 1225, 3: "dolde tolde, in Ostreich, Schlesien und
Baiern quaste, franzen an kleidern."
THE GROTESQUES
a group using fictitious names; they appeared in brown Schembart
costumes covered with small brass discs hung on threads:
Castell Fugger, sambt Ettlichen mit blindten Namen, sein beklaidet
Gewest, Jnn Lauder Mestnen Flinderlein, ein Jedes an ein Trettlein
eines fingers lanng gehenngt, hat wundterlich Schon gesehen, auch sein
darundter ettlich gewest, welche yber Jhr gantze Klaidtung, mit Kleinen
Wiirfflein, haben gedragen/.
The first costume described here is illustrated in a small miniature
below the text, the second, a black Schembart costume covered
with white dice, is pictured in the miniature on f. gir (Fig. 28).
The dice are arranged in a dual pattern in which rows of large
dice placed at right angles alternate with rows of smaller dice in a
diamond design. All the Ldujer of this group are masked and wear
feathered hats, except the last one, whose hat, like his costume,
is also decorated with dice. The Ldujer in the star costume has
both the staff and the fireworks-sheaf, the others have one or the
other.
On the verso of f. 91 a group of seven supplementary costumes
worn in the Schembartlauj of 1539 are introduced by the follow-
ing caption: "Diese nach beschriebn Gesellschafft sein Jm 1539.
Jar Jm Schempart mit gelauffen alB erstlich Christoff KreB Jobst
Haller." Below these names the coats of arms of the Kress and
Haller families are figured, and the blue, red, and white mi-parti
costume illustrated in the miniature on f. 92r is described briefly:
"Warn beklaidtet Jnn Ferbers Wollen, Die aine seidten Plau, Die
ander Rodt, Vnnd WeiB." Most of the costumes in this group are
of a more imaginative and extravagant nature. "Anthoni Zolner"
and "Gberg Tuecher" arrayed themselves in green silk strips, as
figured in the miniature on f. 93r (Fig. 29), hung with gilded
acorns and pine-cones in a decorative design.119 The note on the
costume is put below the coats of arms on f. 92V: "Warn Jnn
Grun Toldte120 Flidtseidten bekleidtet mit Vergulten Aiglen, Vnnd
Danntzzapffen behengt." Folio 93V is headed by the names
"Sebalt Geuger" and "Georg Schenckh"; only the Geuger coat of
119 Cf. Schwabik, p. 83 for a photograph of a pine-cone costume worn by the
"Lagge-Scheller" in the Imst Schemenlaufen.
120 Toldte, cf. Grimm, Wb., II, 1225, 3: "dolde tolde, in Ostreich, Schlesien und
Baiern quaste, franzen an kleidern."