Les simulachres [et] historiees faces de la mort: commonly called "The dance of death"

Les simulachres [et] historiees faces de la mort: commonly called "The dance of death"

Author: Green, Henry, 1801-1873

Year: 1869

Introduction. - Les simulachres [et] historiees faces de la mort ... Lyon, 1538. - The images and storied aspects of death ... Tr. from ... the Lyons ed., of 1538, by Henry Green, M.A. To which are added the German rhymes from Rentz's Remembrances of death and eternity. Manchester, 1869. - Appendix. Photo-lith. fac-similes: of the title, index, and extra woodcut of Imagines mortis, by George Aemylius, Lyons, 1545; of the title, and of pl. I., XXVI., LIJ., and LIII., of [the same] Cologne, 1566; of the title, of pl. VII., XVI., XL.-LL., and of colophon of Simolachri ... de la morte, Luons, 1549. - Epigrammata, I.-LIII., of Imagines mortis, tr ... into Latin by George Aemylius, in the Lyons ed. of 1545 and the Cologne ed. of 1566. - Quotations from the Holy Scriptures of the 12 additional plates, XI.-LI. - Various editions of Holbein's Images of death. - Stanza, I.-LIII., from Simolachri ... de la morte ... Lyons, 1549