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DescriptionPeraldus Knight.jpg
Deutsch: Ein gewappneter Ritter steht hinter den sieben Tugenden („Kardinalstugenden“ septem virtutes) die sieben vom heiligen Geist in Form von Tauben gesandten Geschenken (septem dona spritus sancti) zugeordnet werden.
Der Ritter und die sieben Tugenden stehen den sieben Hauptlastern (septem vitia capitalia: superbia "Hochmut", ira "Zorn", invidia "Neid", acedia "Faulheit", avaritia "Habgier", gula "Völlerei", luxuria "Wollust") entgegen, die hier als Teufel dargestellt sind, mit jeweils geringeren Unter-Lastern in Form von kleinen Dämonen in ihrem Gefolge.
Die Rüstung und das Pferd des Ritters werden dabei mit weiteren Tugenden versinnbildlicht. Dies sind:
Helm: spes futuri gaudii
Schild: fides (als Schildwappen die „heilige Dreiheit“/scutum sancte trinitatis)
Der Engel krönt den Ritter und hält das Spruchband non coronabuntur nisi qui legitime certaverint sowie sieben Bänder mit den sieben Seligpreisungen (ipsorum est regnum caelorum; ipsi possidebunt regnum; ipsi consolabuntur; ipsi saturabuntur; ipsi misericordiam consequentur; ipsi Deum videbunt; quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur)
Aus einem Manuskript der Summa de virtutibus et vitiis des Guilelmus Peraldus. British Library, Harleian MS 3244 f. 28
English: Detail of Harleian ms. 3244, folios 27-28, showing an allegorical knight preparing to battle the seven deadly sins with the "Scutum Fidei" diagram of the Trinity as his shield. This is part of a ca. 1255-1265 illustration to the Summa Vitiorum or "Treatise on the Vices" by William Peraldus. For detailed discussion of the manuscript, see the article "An Illustrated Fragment of Peraldus's Summa of Vice: Harleian MS 3244" by Michael Evans in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 45 (1982), pp. 14-68. For the device on the knight's shield, see image description page File:Trinity knight shield.jpg.
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2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century, after c. 1236
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