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costume book of Sigmund Heldt (Bl. 372a); these "Indians,"
however, wear the feather costume of the South American Indian,
and not the oriental burnous and turban.
"Flidtseide," shimmering silk, is also the material of the next
costume in this group, a costume ascribed to "Georg Hoffman"
and "Michael Schweicker" in the caption on f. 8qv; the shields
below the names are blank. The text reads: "Sein Beklaidtet
gewest, Jnn Allerley farben Von flidtseidten, gelich einem Papigey
frannBenweiB yber ein ander gehefftet/." The Ldufer in the
miniature on f. 85r is clad from head to foot in silk of many colors,
green, white, purple, yellow, blue, and red; the silk hangs free
like heavy fringe ("frannBenweiB"); the description "like a
parrot" ("gelich einem Papigey") is quite appropriate. Two of
the captains in the igiS-Schembartlauf, "HannB Tuecher" and
"Vlrich Haller," the captions on f. 85r inform us, were garbed in
bulkily protruding boxes made of playing-cards, a costume re-
flecting the gaming rampant during the carnival. The brief text
below the coats of arms of these Ldufer is a simple comment:
"Sein behengt geweBen, mit Kartten HeuBlein, yber die ganntze
Beklaidtung/." In the miniature on f. 86r (Fig. 27) the card
boxes cover the whole tunic, the flat hat, and decorate one knee;
the cards are white, and are marked with the typical oak-leaf and
acorn patterns of medieval playing-cards.110
The puppet-show in the Schembartlauf is again illustrated in the
miniature on f. 8yr (Fig. 25), this time on the back of an "old
woman." Her costume consists of a black hood of the Gugel type,
a black smock and apron, a blue skirt, and black shoes, and a
hatchet-faced mask. She is plodding along with her arms folded,
bending forward under the burden of the brown barrel on her
back; in this tub stands the figure of a buxom girl in a white,
sleeveless and bodiced petticoat, with a yellow cap on her head.
The text on f. 86v explains this puppet as a mock bathhouse maid:
"Es ist auch Vnter Dieser Gesellschafft ainer gelauffen Jnn eines
Alten Weibs Gestalt, hat ein Wasser Butten auff seinen Ruckhen
gethragen, so er die Verborgnen Schnur gezogen, ist ein gemachte
Badtmagt auff Vnnd Nider gefahren/." A satire of the bathhouse

110 Cf. Hirth, II, Pl. 764-80; Geisberg (Holzschnitt), Nr. 323-4.