![[Picture: 62z.—Initial capital letter “Z” from Dance of Death Alphabet.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Butsch-RenaissanceOrnament/pages/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-z/062-hans-holbein-1523-death-letter-z-q80-496x500.jpg "[Picture: 62z.—Initial capital letter “Z” from Dance of Death Alphabet.]")
62z.—Initial capital letter “Z” from Dance of Death Alphabet. more
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This decorative initial letter “Z”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. Appropriately for the end of the alphabet, this drop cap Z shows the end of the world and the bodily resurrection at the End of Days, with the Last Judgement.
