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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Enklaar [Enklaar, 1956, 90f] also mentioned… a representation of the carrus navalis, a boat on wheels pulled along by participants in the carnival procession celebrating the return of Spring, which is depicted in a 16th-century manuscript, the so-called Schönbartbuch [”Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 1908; “Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 16th century]. Since the carrus navalis is blue and bears on its mast a pennant with a crescent moon similar to the one in Bosch’s painting, Enklaar concludes that the blue boats in Oestvoren’s poem, Cock’s engraving and Bosch’s Ship of Fools, are all derived from it. (p.47)
The Lunar Symbolism of The Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords 
Interpretation Type 
| InfoSensorium Facet(Sum, 2022) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| – | |||
| Layer of meaning(van Straten, 1994) | Conception of Information(Furner, 2004) | Level of knowledge(Nanetti, 2018) | View of reality(Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018) | 
| Iconological interpretation | Relevance (Iconological) | Interpretations,Narratives | Third world (Culture) | 
Reference Source(s) 
“Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 16th century; “Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch”, 1908; Enklaar, 1956
Symbolic Images 
- “Carrus Navalis in Schönbartbuch” (1908). Retrieved from Das Nürnbergische Schönbartbuch (p. 56), by K. Drescher, 1908, Gesellschaft dor Bibliophilen. Originally published in 16th century.


