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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
…Enklaar [Enklaar, 1933, 37-64, 145-161] in 1933 published a study of a late medieval society that organized burlesque carnivals and took the name of Blaue Schuit, or Blue Boat, following a poem of 1413 by Jacob van Oestvoren of Zeeland. Enklaar [van Oestvoren, 1413; Enklaar, 1937] developed further in 1937 the idea of a Society of the Blue Boat whose bohemian members came from all classes, including the clergy. As evidence that the society participated in carnivals with a boat mounted on a wagon as its entry, he cited a sixteenth-century manuscript from Nuremberg, the Schbnbartbuch [”Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 16th century], which describes the annual masquerades celebrating the return of spring. One of its miniatures, illustrated by Enklaar, shows a blue boat on wheels pulled by ropes; the boat flies a pennant with a crescent on it [Enklaar, 1937; “Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 1908]. Attacked by armed men, the boat is defended by a fantastically dressed crew. (p.272)
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- “Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch” (1908). Retrieved from Das Nürnbergische Schönbartbuch (p. 56), by K. Drescher, 1908, Gesellschaft dor Bibliophilen. Originally published in 16th century.


