The Dance of Death: Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans HolbeinDouce, Francis
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The Dance of Death: Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein
Douce, Francis
Bible. Old Testament -- Illustrations; Dance of death
2. "Ce present livre est appelle Miroer salutaire pour toutes gens, et de
tous estatz, et est de grant utilité et recreation pour pleuseurs
ensegnemens tant en Latin comme en Francoys lesquels il contient ainsi
compose pour ceulx qui desirent acquerir leur salut: et qui le voudront
avoir. La Danse Macabre nouvelle." At the end, "Cy finit la Danse Macabre
hystoriee augmentee de pleuseurs nouveaux pârsonnages (six) et beaux dis.
et les trois mors et trois vif ensemble. Nouvellement ainsi composee et
imprimee par Guyot Marchant demorant a Paris au grant hostel du college de
Navarre en champ Gaillart lan de grace, 1486, le septieme jour de juing."
A small folio of fifteen leaves, or thirty pages, twenty-four of which
belong to the Danse Macabre, and six to the Trois morts et les trois vifs.
On the authority of the above expression, "composée," and also on that of
La Croix du Maine, Marchant has been made the author as well as the
printer of the work; but M. De la Monnoye is not of that opinion, nor
indeed is there any other metrical composition by this printer known to
exist.
3. "La Danse Macabre des femmes, &c. Paris, par Guyot Marchant, 1486, le
septieme jour de Juillet," small folio, of fifteen leaves only. This is
the first edition of the Macaber Dance of females; and though thirty-two
of them are described, the Queen and Duchess only are engraved. See No. 6
for the rest. This and the preceding edition are also particularly
described by Messrs. Champollion Figeac and Peignot.
4. "Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicis edita, et a Petro Desrey
emendata. Parisiis per magistrum Guidonem Mercatorem pro Godeffrido de
Marnef. 1490," folio. Papillon thought the cuts were in the manner of the
French artist Jollat, but without foundation, for they are much superior
to any work by that artist, and of considerable merit.
5. "La nouvelle Danse Macabre des hommes dicte miroer salutaire de toutes
gens et de touts etats, &c. Paris, Guyot Marchant. 1490." folio.
6. "La Danse Macabre des femmes, toute hystoriée et augmentée de nouveaulx
personnages, &c. Paris, Guyot Marchant, le 2 Mai, 1491," folio. This
edition, the second of the Dance of females, has all the cuts with other
additions. The list of the figures is in Peignot, but with some doubts on
the accuracy of his description.
7. An edition in the Low German dialect was printed at Lubeck, 1496,
according to Vonder Hagen in his Deutschen Poesie, p. 459, who likewise
mentions a Low German edition in prose, at the beginning of the 15th (he
must mean 16th) century. He adds, that he has copied one page with cuts
from _Kindeling's Remains_, but he does not say in what work.
8. "La grant Danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes hystorice et augmentée
de beaulx dits en Latin, &c. &c. Le tout composé en ryme Francoise et
accompagné de figures. Lyon, le xviii jour de Fevrier, l'an 1499," folio.
This is supposed to be the first edition that contains both the men and
the women.
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