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Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort : commonly called "The dance of death." / translated and edited by Henry Green ; with a sketch of Holbein's life and works, and some explanatory notes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: The Holbein Society's facsimile reprints | ; v.1Publication details: Manchester : Pub. for the Holbein-Society by A. Brothers ; London ; Trübner and Co., 1869.Description: xxx, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(s):
Contents:
Introduction. -- Les simulachres & 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 facsimiles: of the title, index, and extra wood-cut of Imagines mortis, by George Æmylius, Lyons, 1545; of the title, and of pl. i., xxxvi., lij., and liii. of [the same] Cologne, 1566; of the title, of pl. vii., xvi., xl.-li., and of colophon of Simolachri ... de la morte, Lyone, 1549.--Epigrammata, I.-LIII., of Imagines mortis, tr. ... into Latin by George Æmylius, in the Lyons ed. of 1545 and the Cologne ed. of 1566.--Quotations from the Holy Scriptures of the 12 additional plates, xl.-li.--Various editions of Holbein's Images of death.--Stanzas, I.-LIII., from Simolachri ... de la morte ... Lyons, 1549.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. -- Les simulachres & 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 facsimiles: of the title, index, and extra wood-cut of Imagines mortis, by George Æmylius, Lyons, 1545; of the title, and of pl. i., xxxvi., lij., and liii. of [the same] Cologne, 1566; of the title, of pl. vii., xvi., xl.-li., and of colophon of Simolachri ... de la morte, Lyone, 1549.--Epigrammata, I.-LIII., of Imagines mortis, tr. ... into Latin by George Æmylius, in the Lyons ed. of 1545 and the Cologne ed. of 1566.--Quotations from the Holy Scriptures of the 12 additional plates, xl.-li.--Various editions of Holbein's Images of death.--Stanzas, I.-LIII., from Simolachri ... de la morte ... Lyons, 1549.

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