Marginal thinking: 07b. Thielman Kerver (French)

The priest has "eaten the living and the dead".

Death "stabs and bites" the Carthusian

Thielman Kerver has published a variant of Simon Vostre's dance with 66 figures in Latin. The same series also exists in Dutch and Spanish.

Yet another version of the same 66 dancers is in French.

There are a few echoes from La Danse Macabre, when the parish priest says: »I ate the living and the dead«, by which he probably means that he earned his living by ministering to the living as well as the dead.

There are also echoes of La Vie de l'Homme, when Death "stabs and bites" the Carthusian: »Tout à mon aise je mords et aiguillonne«.

Apart from these few and faint echoes, the text must be considered original. I have transcribed the text and tried to translate it into English.

Click any picture to jump into the dance, go to a page dedicated to this dance, or leave Kerver and go to Jacobinus Suigus.

Go forth

The next chapter is about Jacobinus Suigus, who placed his dance at the bottom of the pages.

The previous subject was Thielman Kerver in Dutch.

Thielman Kerver's 66 French dancers

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Pope

Emperor

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Cardinal

King

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Patriarch

Connétabel

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Archbishop

Knight

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Bishop

Nobleman

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Abbot

Bailiff

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Astrologer

Citizen

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Canon

Merchant

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Carthusian

Sergeant

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Monk

Usurer

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Lawyer

Minstrel

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Priest

Peasant

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Clerk

Hermit

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Queen

Duchess

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Regent

Suitor

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Physician

Knight's wife

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Abbess

Noblewoman

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Prioress

Young woman

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City woman

Child

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Nun

Widow

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Franciscan

Franciscan nun

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Merchant's wife

Bailiff's wife

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Theologian

Newly-wed

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Spinster maid

Shepherdess

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Suitoress

Bride

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Darling wife

Virgin

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Hospitable woman

Wet nurse

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Old woman

Resales woman

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Woman with crutches

Village woman

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Chambermaid

Housekeeper

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Midwife

Young girl

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Pregnant woman

Witch

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Bigot woman

Fool

External links

Google Books has a copy, where the 66 dancers appear first in French and later in Latin: Heures a lusaige de Rom m e nouellement imprimees, esquelles a plusieurs […]. The French dance starts on page 137, and the Latin on page 174.
A much better scan, but only with the French dance: Heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me nouuessement imprimees esquelles a plusieurs belles hystoires de la bible : auec les figures de lapocalipse, la da[n]ce macabre, et plusieurs autres. The dance starts on page 144.