Who holds pears like that?!

[MarcoP]

Hi Koen, the text is transcribed in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., thesis by Peter Stahl (p.174). These are the two paragraphs before and after the illustration. My guess is that the illustration shows a leper holding a clapper (paragraph 28).

27. [Abb.] Es sind och ettliche lút, die so groß höfer haben, also alles das jn merung des libs wachsen söllte, das nympt oder zúcht der hofer an sich. Vnd darvmb sind sy klain als die zwerg.

28. [Abb.] Vss stummen vnd ongehörenden werden kind geporn, vss vsse- czigen werden vsseczige kind geporn, doch nitt vss blinden blind noch vss ainöcken ainöcke kind.

Machine translation:

27. [Illustration] There are also some people who have such large goiters that everything that should be nourishment of the body is taken up or absorbed by the goiter. And therefore, they are as small as dwarves.

28. [Illustration] Mute and deaf parents give birth to mute and deaf children; lepers give birth to leprous children. However, blind people do not necessarily give birth to blind children, nor do one-eyed people give birth to one-eyed children.