Marginal thinking: Beinecke MS 411
The canon
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The Carthusian
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This dance consists of 15 persons with one person in the margin of each page.
There is no text at all, which can make it quite challenging to identify the dancers.
It helps that the manuscript reminds a lot of Lewis E 113.
For instance, the ecclesiastical to the left
looks precisely like
the canon in Lewis E 113,
where the text informs us that the man is a canon of the Rule of St. Augustine.
In the same manner the ecclesiastical to the right
is the twin of
a count.
The nobleman?"
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The young man?"
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The problem is that the texts in Lewis E 133 are not always unambiguous, legible or informative.
Take the two men to the left and right side:
They are more or less identical, wearing a blue jersey, red coat, fur collar and flat hat,
but the problem is that Lewis E 133 has three such participants:
a count,
an unidentified gentleman and (probably)
a nobleman.
In this case, we can at most come up with qualified guesses.
The next book was once owned by Francis Douce.
External links
Young man
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The dance of death
Marginals
Dances of death
Beinecke MS 411
