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 36
BicuMQUE desines, si bene desinis , sed et fortiter de- sinendum, Non est res magna vi- vere, omnes servi tui vivunt, omnia animalia , sed magnum est honeste mori, prudenter, fortiter.
Dance of death
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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