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Title Page The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border. (I can make the border available as a separate image without the text on request; use the Comment link). [more...] |
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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Ths ornament is on the title page. |
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Plate 62, Dance of Death Alphabet (overview) Plate 62 is Holbein’s Dance of Death alphabet. I am making the individual letters available at higher resolution; this image is just a place to put the notes and to let you get a feel for the whole alphabet. [more...] |
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62a.—Initial capital letter “A” from Dance of Death Alphabet This decorative initial letter “A”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein the Younger and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton banging a drum (or tabor) with a bone, and also playing a fife, followed by another skeleton waving a banner, or possibly playing a trumpet. Some commentators say they are marching through a graveyard [...] [more...] |
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62b.—Initial capital letter “B” from Dance of Death Alphabet This decorative initial letter “B”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features two skeletons, or death-figures, a dog and a pope. Some commentators say the dog is actually a demon, [...] [more...] |
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62c.—Initial capital letter “C” from Dance of Death Alphabet This decorative initial letter “C”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. it features an emperor in the clutches of two skeletons, or Deaths, one of [...] [more...] |
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62d.—Initial capital letter “D” from Dance of Death Alphabet This decorative initial letter “D”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features a king thrown to the ground and [...] [more...] |
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62e.—Initial capital letter “E” from Dance of Death Alphabet This decorative initial letter “E”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton, representing [...] [more...] |
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62f.—Initial capital letter “F” from Dance of Death Alphabet. This decorative initial letter “F”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. Two grinning skeletons, representing Death, are attacking an empress sitting in her throne; one of the [...] [more...] |
