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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Douce, Francis

Douce, Francis

Bible. Old Testament -- Illustrations; Dance of death

"Les Simulachres et historiées faces de la Mort, autant elegamment
pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de
Coloigne, MDXXXVIII." At the end "Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar
Trechsel fratres, 1538," 4to. On this title-page is a cut of a
triple-headed figure crowned with wings, on a pedestal, over which a book
with [Greek: GNÔTHI SEAUTON]. Below, two serpents and two globes, with
"usus me genuit." This has, 1. A dedication to Madame Jehanne de Touszele.
2. Diverses tables de mort, non painctes, mais extraictes de l'escripture
saincte, colorées par Docteurs Ecclesiastiques, et umbragées par
philosophes. 3. Over each print, passages from scripture, allusive to the
subject, in Latin, and at bottom the substance of them in four French
verses. 4. Figures de la mort moralement descriptes et depeinctes selon
l'authorité de l'scripture, et des Sainctz Peres. 5. Les diverses mors des
bons, et des maulvais du viel, et nouveau testament. 6. Des sepultures des
justes. 7. Memorables authoritez, et sentences des philosophes, et
orateurs Payens pour conformer les vivans à non craindre la mort. 7. De la
necessite de la mort qui ne laisse riens estre par durable." With
forty-one cuts. This may be safely regarded as the first edition of the
work. There is nothing in the title page that indicates any preceding one.

II. "Les Simulachres et historiées faces de la mort, contenant la Medecine
de l'ame, utile et necessaire non seulement aux malades mais à tous qui
sont en bonne disposition corporelle. D'avantage, la forme et maniere de
consoler les malades. Sermon de sainct Cecile Cyprian, intitulé de
Mortalité. Sermon de S. Jan Chrysostome, pour nous exhorter à patience:
traictant aussi de la consommation de ce siecle, et du second advenement
de Jesus Christ, de la joye eternelle des justes, de la peine et damnation
des mauvais, et autres choses necessaires à un chascun chrestien, pour
bien vivre et bien mourir. A Lyon, à l'escu de Coloigne, chez Jan et
François Frellon freres," 1542, 12mo. With forty-one cuts. Then a moral
epistle to the reader, in French. The descriptions of the cuts in Latin
and French as before, and the pieces expressed in the title page.

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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

"Les Simulachres et historiées faces de la Mort, autant elegamment
pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de
Coloigne, MDXXXVIII." At the end "Excudebant Lugduni Melchior et Gaspar
Trechsel fratres, 1538," 4to. On this title-page is a cut of a
triple-headed figure crowned with wings, on a pedestal, over which a book
with [Greek: GNÔTHI SEAUTON]. Below, two serpents and two globes, with
"usus me genuit." This has, 1. A dedication to Madame Jehanne de Touszele.
2. Diverses tables de mort, non painctes, mais extraictes de l'escripture
saincte, colorées par Docteurs Ecclesiastiques, et umbragées par
philosophes. 3. Over each print, passages from scripture, allusive to the
subject, in Latin, and at bottom the substance of them in four French
verses. 4. Figures de la mort moralement descriptes et depeinctes selon
l'authorité de l'scripture, et des Sainctz Peres. 5. Les diverses mors des
bons, et des maulvais du viel, et nouveau testament. 6. Des sepultures des
justes. 7. Memorables authoritez, et sentences des philosophes, et
orateurs Payens pour conformer les vivans à non craindre la mort. 7. De la
necessite de la mort qui ne laisse riens estre par durable." With
forty-one cuts. This may be safely regarded as the first edition of the
work. There is nothing in the title page that indicates any preceding one.

II. "Les Simulachres et historiées faces de la mort, contenant la Medecine
de l'ame, utile et necessaire non seulement aux malades mais à tous qui
sont en bonne disposition corporelle. D'avantage, la forme et maniere de
consoler les malades. Sermon de sainct Cecile Cyprian, intitulé de
Mortalité. Sermon de S. Jan Chrysostome, pour nous exhorter à patience:
traictant aussi de la consommation de ce siecle, et du second advenement
de Jesus Christ, de la joye eternelle des justes, de la peine et damnation
des mauvais, et autres choses necessaires à un chascun chrestien, pour
bien vivre et bien mourir. A Lyon, à l'escu de Coloigne, chez Jan et
François Frellon freres," 1542, 12mo. With forty-one cuts. Then a moral
epistle to the reader, in French. The descriptions of the cuts in Latin
and French as before, and the pieces expressed in the title page.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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

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