Nuremberg Shrovetide Carnival (1449-1539). Schembartsbuch. c.1590-1640 (?). “No. 6. Man in costume of the fur of a bear, mask of head of a pig, and carrying small figure of a fool.”
Johannes Bochius. Description Publicae Gratulationis … in Aduentu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae. Antwerp, 1532-1603.
Romance of Alexander, 1338-1344. “Five mummers joining hands: they wear heraldic capes and animal heads of ass, ape, goat, ox and vulture.”
George Ripley, Alchemical Roll. c.1600. “The volatile and the fixed: Rebis: the Hermaphrodite.”
Evangéliaire à l’usage de l’abbaye Sainte-Geneviève de Paris (?) c 1520-1530 (?).
Adrien de Saint-Gelais, Les trois buccines. France, 15th-16th century.
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand (before 1390).
‘Pallas and Arachne at the loom’. Ovid,Metamorphoses (second anonymous French translation - Ovide moralisé). S. Netherlands, last quarter of the 15th century.
Calendrier des bergers (Paris, 1493). Punishment of the slothful (top) and the lustful (bottom).
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