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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 25

An illustration from The celebrated Hans Holbein's Alphabet of death : illustrated with old borders engraved on wood with Latin sentences and English quatrains, 1856, leaf 25
odis quo- tidie miseros ho- mines rapit; himc necat febribus, hunc opprimit doloribus, hunc con- sumit fame, ilium siti extinguit, himc suffocat aquis, ilium interi- mitlaqueo, ilium perimit flammis, hunc trucidat ferro, ilium veneno corrumpit, alteram repentino ter- rore miseram vitam finire com*…

Dance of death

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