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 32
mus , vita decrescit ; infantiam amisimus, deinde pueritiam, dein- de adolescentiam ; usque ad hes- ternum quidquid trausiit temporis periit; hunc ipsum, quern agimus, diem cum morte dividimus. SENECA, EPIST. 2k Though ye be tendre and born of gentille [Mode, Unto this daunce Imoste be your gy/de;…
Dance of death
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