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THE GROTESQUES
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arms is filled in. A short descriptive text is added: "Jr Klaidung
wardt yber hefftet mit Laudter Klein Hiilznen, Docken, Vnnd
Rodten Pappiren Neglein, Blumen/." This very colorful design
is illustrated in the miniature on f. 94r (Fig. 30): the whole
costume consists of small dolls ("Docken") dressed in various
colors (red, green, black, yellow and orange), and sewn side by side
on a black, close-fitting garment, with lines of small, rose-colored,
paper flowers between the rows of dolls.121
A magnificent costume of peacock feathers, closely fitted over
the whole body and arms and legs, follows in the miniature on f.
95r; the colors are green, blue, and rose, with gold tints. The text
on f. 94V, which ascribes this costume to "Sabastian Hainolt" and
"Laux Dennger," remarks on its beauty: "Sein bekleidtet geweBen
Jnn Lauder Pfahen Federn Oder Spiegel, hat ser Schon gesehen."
The names of the next pair, on f. 95V, are "Caspar Pusch" and
"Christoff Juncker," and below them are two empty shields. Their
attire is described as follows: "Warn beklaidtet Jnn Griinseiden
Vnnd zerschnidten yber ein ander geschlagen, An einem Jeden
Schnittlein ein Gultnus Flinderlein gehenngt, Dises ist Das alle
leuchtest Klaidt Jhm Schempart gewest, Vnnd JberauB Lustig
gestanden/." On f. g6r we see the miniature of this "most bril-
liant" costume, which was made of strips of green silk, to each of
which is attached a little golden disc ("Flinderlein"); the effect,
as the text remarks, is "exceedingly jolly." The subject of the
miniature on f. 97r is a much simpler costume in one tone of blue,
worn, we read on f. 96V, by two men of the crafts: "Maister
Paullus Behaim Jn der Peim vnnd N: ein Deckweber. Jnn Blauer
Ferbers Wolln beklaidet." The last of this series of miniatures is
the costume of the Ldufer "Lorentz Spenngler" and "Wolff Dietz
Schneider," described on f. 97V: "Warn bekladt in Rodt Daffet,
mit weiBen Tretten Portten, Rautten weiB, in den Feldern ein
Lbben Kopff gemalht, welcher ein Ring Jnn Maul hate." The
miniature on f. 971 shows the Ldufer garbed in red taffeta, with a
design of a large diamond pattern formed by crossing white wires;
in each diamond is the device of a lion's head with a black ring in
his mouth, a motif familiarized by the Italian Renaissance.
121 A parallel to this highly original device is the design of an English mummer's
costume, illustrated in G. Long, op. cit., p. 222.
121
arms is filled in. A short descriptive text is added: "Jr Klaidung
wardt yber hefftet mit Laudter Klein Hiilznen, Docken, Vnnd
Rodten Pappiren Neglein, Blumen/." This very colorful design
is illustrated in the miniature on f. 94r (Fig. 30): the whole
costume consists of small dolls ("Docken") dressed in various
colors (red, green, black, yellow and orange), and sewn side by side
on a black, close-fitting garment, with lines of small, rose-colored,
paper flowers between the rows of dolls.121
A magnificent costume of peacock feathers, closely fitted over
the whole body and arms and legs, follows in the miniature on f.
95r; the colors are green, blue, and rose, with gold tints. The text
on f. 94V, which ascribes this costume to "Sabastian Hainolt" and
"Laux Dennger," remarks on its beauty: "Sein bekleidtet geweBen
Jnn Lauder Pfahen Federn Oder Spiegel, hat ser Schon gesehen."
The names of the next pair, on f. 95V, are "Caspar Pusch" and
"Christoff Juncker," and below them are two empty shields. Their
attire is described as follows: "Warn beklaidtet Jnn Griinseiden
Vnnd zerschnidten yber ein ander geschlagen, An einem Jeden
Schnittlein ein Gultnus Flinderlein gehenngt, Dises ist Das alle
leuchtest Klaidt Jhm Schempart gewest, Vnnd JberauB Lustig
gestanden/." On f. g6r we see the miniature of this "most bril-
liant" costume, which was made of strips of green silk, to each of
which is attached a little golden disc ("Flinderlein"); the effect,
as the text remarks, is "exceedingly jolly." The subject of the
miniature on f. 97r is a much simpler costume in one tone of blue,
worn, we read on f. 96V, by two men of the crafts: "Maister
Paullus Behaim Jn der Peim vnnd N: ein Deckweber. Jnn Blauer
Ferbers Wolln beklaidet." The last of this series of miniatures is
the costume of the Ldufer "Lorentz Spenngler" and "Wolff Dietz
Schneider," described on f. 97V: "Warn bekladt in Rodt Daffet,
mit weiBen Tretten Portten, Rautten weiB, in den Feldern ein
Lbben Kopff gemalht, welcher ein Ring Jnn Maul hate." The
miniature on f. 971 shows the Ldufer garbed in red taffeta, with a
design of a large diamond pattern formed by crossing white wires;
in each diamond is the device of a lion's head with a black ring in
his mouth, a motif familiarized by the Italian Renaissance.
121 A parallel to this highly original device is the design of an English mummer's
costume, illustrated in G. Long, op. cit., p. 222.