The celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of death : illustrated with old borders engraved on wood with Latin sentences and English quatrains (1856)
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Montaiglon, Anatole de, 1824-1895, Le Maire, Leon · Paris : E. Tross · leaf 17
pud mortem non est acceptio per- sonarum. Necmi- seretur pupillo, nec defert senio- … 0 creatures, ye that ben resonable, Who alle shalle trace the daunce of Macabre', Ye may here lern doctrine fid notable, How dethe ne spareth high ne low degre. ■
Dance of death
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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