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 - Francis Douce

A.
Æmylius, Geo. his verses, [84].
Alciatus, his emblems the earliest work of the kind, [180].
Aldegrever, his Dance of Death, [160].
Almanac, a Swiss one, with a Dance of Death, [76], [209].
Alphabets, several curious, [100], [214], [217].
Amman, Jost, a Dance of Death by him, [41].
Ars moriendi, some account of the last edition of it, [173].
Athyr, “Stamm-und Stechbuchlein,” a rare and singular book of emblems, [180].
B.
Baldinucci, a mistake by him corrected, [235].
Basle, destruction of its celebrated painting of the Dance of Death, [39].
engravings of it, [41].
Beauclerc, Lady Diana, her ballad of Leonora, [210].
Bechstein, Ludwig, his edition of the Lyons’ wood-cuts, [136].
Beham, Barthol., his Dance of Death, [190].
Bernard, le petit, his fine wood-cuts to the Old Testament, [173].
Berne almanac, a Dance of Death in one of them, [154].
Bock, Hans, not the painter of the Basle Dance of Death, [39].
Bodenehr, Maurice, a Dance of Death by him, [165].
“Boetius de consolatione,” a figure of Death in an old edition of it, [171].
Bonaparte, Napoleon, a Dance of Death relating to him, [167].
Books in which a Dance of Death is occasionally introduced, [168].
Borbonius, Nicolas, his portrait, [140].
his verses, [92], [94], [139].
in England, [140].
Bosman, Arent, a singular old Dutch legend relating to him, [183].
Bosse, a curious engraving by him, [196].
Boxgrove church in Sussex, sculpture in, [226].
Brant, Sebastian, his stultifera navis, [170].
Bromiard, John De, his “Summa predicantium,” a fine frontispiece to it, [183].
Buno, Conrad, a book of emblems by him, [181].
Burnet, Bishop, his ambiguous account of a Dance of Death at Basle, [79], [138].
C.
Calendrier des Bergers, [170].
Callot, drawings by him of a Dance of Death in the collection of Sir Tho. Lawrence, [223].
Camus, M. de, a ludicrous mistake by him, [169].
Catz’s emblems, [182].
Cavallero determinado, [174].
Centre de l’amour, a singular book of emblems, [182].
Chertablon, “Maniere de se bien preparer à la mort,” [177].
“Chevalier de la tour,” a singular print from this curious romance, [171].
Chodowiecki, his engravings relating to the Dance of Death, [153], [207], [208].
Chorier, his “Antiquités de Vienne,” [48].
Cogeler, “Imagines elegantissimæ, &c.” [173].
Coleraine, I. Nixon, his Dance of Death on a fan, [159].
Colman’s “Death’s duell,” [185].
Compan, M. his mistake about a Dance of Death, [237].
Coppa, a poem ascribed to Virgil, [3].
Cossiers, John, a curious print after him, [199].
Coverdale’s Bible, with initials of a Dance of Death, [217].
Coxe’s travels in Switzerland, some account in them of M. Crozat’s drawings, [134].
Crozat, M. De, account of some supposed drawings by Holbein in his collection, [134].
D.
Dagger, design for the sheath of one by Holbein, [133].
Dagley’s “Death’s doings,” [157], [210], [224].
Dance of Death, a pageant, [5].
Danish one, [159].
known to the ancients, [12].
one at Pompeii, [13].
the term sometimes improperly used, [81].
verses belonging to it, [17].
where sculptured and painted, [17].
Dance, Mr. the painter, his imitation of a subject in the Dance of Death in his portrait of Mr. Garrick, [137].
Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subject, [160].
anonymous, [161], [162], [163], [164].
at the following places,
Amiens, [47].
Anneberg, [44].
Avignon, [221].
Basle, [36].
Berlin, [48].
Berne, [45].
Blois, [47].
Croydon, [54].
Dijon, [35].
Dresden, [44].
Erfurth, [44].
Fescamp, [47].
Hexham, [53].
Holland, [49].
Italy, [49].
Klingenthal, [42].
Leipsic, [44].
Lubeck, [43].
Lucerne, [46].
Minden, [35].
Nuremberg, [45].
Paris, [14], [33], [35].
Rouen, [47].
Salisbury, [52].
St. Paul’s, [51], [76].
Spain, [50].
Strasburg, [47].
Tower of London, [54].
Vienne, in Dauphiné, [48].
Wortley Hall, [53].
Dancing in temples and churchyards, [5], [6].
Daniel, Mr. an unique print of a Dance of Death in his possession, [248].
Danse aux aveugles, [231].
Death and the Lady, [226].
how personified by the Ancients, [1].
not in itself terrific, [4].
to Dr. Quackery, [211].
De Bry, prints by him, [180], [183], [195].
Dedication to the first edition of the Lyons wood-cuts, [86].
mistakes in it, [87].
De Gheyn, prints by him, [198], [205].
De la Motte’s fables, [183].
Della Bella, [162].
De Murr, his mistake about the Dance of Death, [235]
Dennecker, or De Necker, Jobst, Dances of Death by him, [40], [42], [85], [118].
De Pas, Crispin, description of a singular engraving by him, [196].
Descamps, his mistake about the Dance of Death, [235].
Deuchar, David, the Scottish Worlidge, his etchings of the Dance of Death, [135].
Deutch, Nicolas Manuel, the painter of a Dance of Death at Berne, [224].
Devil’s ruff-shop, [200].
De Vos, Martin, print after him of the Devil’s ruff-shop, [200].
Diepenbecke, Abraham, designer of the borders to Hollar’s etchings of the Dance of Death, [125].
Dialogue of life and death, in “Dialogues of creatures moralized,” [170].
Dominotiers, venders of coloured prints for the common people, [77].
Drawings of the Dance of Death, [222].
Druræi Mors, an excellent Latin comedy, [175].
Dugdale, his Monasticon, [129].
his St. Paul’s, [129].
Durer, Albert, some prints by or after him described, [188], [189].
E.
Ear, the seat of memory among the Ancients, [3].
swearing by, [3].
Edwards, Mr. the bookseller, the possessor of Hollar’s etchings of the Dance of Death, [128].
Elizabeth, her prayer-book with a Dance of Death, [147], [247].
Emblems and fables relating to the Dance of Death, [179].
Engravings on wood, the earliest impressions of them not always the best, [85], [90].
commendations of them in books printed in France, Germany, and Italy, [97].
Errors of miscellaneous writers on the Dance of Death, [236].
of travellers concerning it, [233].
of writers on painting and engraving concerning it, [234].
Evelyn, Mr. his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [235].
F.
Fables relating to the Dance of Death, [179].
Faut mourir, le, [26].
Felibien, his mistake about the Dance of Death, [235].
Figeac, Champollion, his account of a Macaber Dance, [238].
Fleischmann, Counsellor, of Strasburg, drawings of a Dance of Death in his possession, [134].
Fontenai, Abbé, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [236].
Fool and Death in old moralities, [177].
Fournier, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [237].
Fox, John, “Book of Christian Prayers,” compiled by him, [147].
Francis I. an importer of fine artists into France, [92].
Francolin, a rare work by him described, [217].
Freidanck, [171].
Friderich’s emblems, [180].
Frontispieces connected with the Dance of Death, described, [183].
Fulbert’s vision of the dispute between the soul and the body, [32].
Fuseli, Mr. his opinion concerning the Dance of Death, [83].
Fyner, Conrad, his process or law-suit of Death.
G.
Gallitzin, Prince, some supposed drawings by Holbein of a Dance of Death in his possession, [134].
Gem, an ancient one, with a skeleton as the representative of Death, [206].
Gerard, Mark, some etchings of fables by him, [179].
Gesner’s Pandectæ, remarks on a passage in that work, [84].
Ghezzi, a figure of Death among his caricatures, [206].
Glarus, Franciscus à, his “Confusio disposita, &c.” noticed as a very singular work, [177].
Glass, painted, with a Dance of Death, [227].
Glissenti, his “Discorsi morali,” [112].
his “Morte inamorata,” [246].
Gobin le gay, a name of one of the shepherds in an old print of the Adoration, [69].
Gobin, Robert, his “loups ravissans,” remarkable for a Dance of Death, [146].
Goethe, a Dance of Death in one of his works, [178], [211].
Gole, a mezzotinto by him of Death and the Miser, [203].
Goujet, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle, [233].
Graaf, Urs, a print by him, and his monogram described, [189].
Grandville, “Voyage pour l’eternité,” [157].
Gray, Rev. Robert, his mistake about the Dance of Death at Basle, [233].
Gringoire, Pierre, his “Heures de Notre Dame,” [172].
Grosthead, story from his “Manuel de Péché,” [7].
Guilleville, “Pelerin de la vie humaine,” [175].
H.
Harding, an etching by him of “Death and the Doctor,” [211].
Hawes’s “Pastime of Pleasure,” two prints from it described, [173].
Heemskirk, Martin, a print by him described, [193], [199].
Hegner, his life of Holbein, [240].
Heymans, Mynheer, a dedication to him, [141].
Historia della Morte, a poem so called, [176].
Holbein, a German, life of him by Hegner, [240].
ambiguity with respect to the paintings at Basle ascribed to him, [81].
dance of peasants by him, [80].
engravings by him with his name, [95].
his Bible prints, [94].
his connexion with the Dance of Death, [78], [138].
his death, in 1554, [144].
his name not in the early editions of the Lyons wood-cuts, [92].
lives of him very defective, [143].
more particulars relating to him, [143].
not the painter of the Dance of Death at Basle, [38], [43], [144].
paints a Dance of Death at Whitehall, [141].
satirical painting of Erasmus by him, [221].
Hollar, his copies of the Dance of Death, [125].
Hopfer, David, his print of Death and the Devil, [191].
Horæ, manuscripts of this service book with the Macaber Dance, [60].
printed copies of it with the same, and some similar designs, [72].
Huber and Rust, their mistake concerning Holbein, [236].
I.
Jacques, Maitre, his “le faut mourir,” [26].
Jansen, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [236].
Imitations of and from the Lyons wood-cuts, [137].
Initial letters with a Dance of Death, [213], [214], [217].
Innocent III. Pope, his work “de vilitate conditionis humanæ,” [172].
K.
Karamsin, Nicolai, his account of a Dance of Death, [44].
Kauw, his drawing of a Dance of Death, at Berne, [224].
Kerver, Thielman, his editions of “Horæ,” [174].
Klauber, John Hugh, a painter of a Dance of Death at Basle, [36], [42].
L.
Langlois, an engraving by him described, [198].
Larvæ and lemures, confusion among the ancients as to their respective qualities, [4].
“Last drop,” an etching so intitled, [211].
a drawing of the same subject, [224].
Lavenberg calendar, prints by Chodowiecki in it, [153].
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, drawings by Callot of a Dance of Death in his possession, [223].
“Lawyer’s last circuit,” a caricature print, [209].
Le Blon, a circular print by him described, [197].
Le Comte, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [235].
Lubeck, a Dance of Death there, [163].
Lutzenberger, Hans, the engraver of the Lyons wood-cuts of the Dance of Death, [98].
alphabets by him, [100].
various prints by him, [99].
Luyken’s Emblems, [177], [178].
Lydgate, his Verses to the Macaber Dance, [29], [52].
Lyons, all the editions of the wood-cuts of the Dance of Death published there described, [82], [103].
copies of them by Hollar, [125].
copies of them on copper, [121].
copies of them on wood, [111].
various imitations of some of them, [137].
Lyvijus, John, a print by him of two card players, [197].
M.
Macaber, a word falsely applied as the name of a supposed German poet, [28], [34].
its etymology discussed, [30], [34].
Macaber Dance, [13], [28].
copies or engravings of it as painted at Basle, [40].
destruction of the painting at Basle, [39].
manuscripts in which it is represented, [72].
not painted by Holbein, [38].
printed books, in which it is represented, [55].
representations of it at the following places:—
Amiens, [47].
Anneberg, [44].
Basle, [36].
Berlin, [48].
Berne, [45].
Burgos, [50].
Croydon, [54].
Dijon, [35].
Dresden, [44], [76].
Erfurth, [44].
Hexham, [53].
Holland, [49].
Klingenthal, [42].
Lubeck, [43].
Lucerne, [46].
Minden, [35].
Naples, [49].
Rouen, [47].
Salisbury, [52].
St. Paul’s, [51], [76].
Strasburg, [47].
Tower of London, [54].
Vienne, [48].
Wortley Hall, [53].
Macarius Saint, painting of a legend relating to him, by Orgagna, at the Campo Santo, [32], [33].
Malpé, M., his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [236].
Mannichius, [180].
Manuel de Peché, by Grosthead, [7].
Mapes, Walter de, an allusion by him to a Dance of Death, [24].
vision of a dispute between the soul and the body, ascribed to him, [33].
Marks or monograms of engravers, their uncertainty, [102].
Marmi, Gio. Battista, his “Ritratte della Morte,” [129].
Mechel, Chretien de, [132], [208], [214].
Meckenen, Israel Van, a Dance of Death by him, [160].
Meisner, his “Sciographia Cosmica,” [180].
Melidæus, Jonas, a satirical work under this disguised name, intitled “Res mira,” [184].
Meyers, Rodolph, his Dance of Death, [148].
Meyssens, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [234].
Missal, an undescribed one, in the type of the psalter of 1457, [213].
Misson, the traveller, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [233].
Mitelli, Gio. Maria, a kind of Death’s Dance, by him, [161].
Moncrief, his “March of Intellect,” quoted for a print after Cruikshank, [178].
Montenaye, Georgette de, her emblems, [179].
“Mors,” an excellent Latin comedy, by William Drury, [175].
Mortimer, a sketch by him of Death seizing several persons, [209].
Mortilogus, [171].
N.
Negro figure of Death, [230].
Newton’s Dances of Death, [165].
Nieuhoff, Piccard, [130], [140].
Nuremberg Chronicle, a cut from it described, [170].
a story from it, [6].
O.
Old Franks, a curious painting by him, [204], [221].
Oliver, Isaac, his copy of a painting by Holbein, at Whitehall, [145], [221].
Orgagna, Andrea, his painting at the Campo Santo, [32].
Ortulus Rosarum, [170].
Otho Vænius, a curious painting by him, [204], [222].
Ottley, Mr. his opinion in favour of Holbein as the designer of the Lyons wood-cuts, [88].
proof impressions of the Lyons wood-cuts in his valuable collection, [85].
P.
Palingenius, his “Zodiacus Vitæ,” a frontispiece to this work described, [186].
Panneels, William, a scholar of Rubens, mention of a painting by him, [203].
Papillon, his ludicrous mistakes noticed, [110], [114].
Patin, Charles, a traveller, and a libeller of the English, [79], [138], [237].
Paulmy, Marquis de, his mistake concerning the Dance of Death, [238].
Paul’s St., mention of the Dance of Death formerly there, [51], [163].
Peasants, a dance of, painted at Basle, by Holbein, [80].
Peignot, M. author of “Les Danses de Mort,” an interesting work, [preface].
his misconception relating to John Porey, [248].
Perriere, his “Morosophie,” [179].
Petrarch, his triumph of Death, [175], [207].
his work “de remediis utriusque fortunæ,” [175].
Pfister, Albert, his “Tribunal Mortis,” [168].
Piccard, Nieuhoff, [130], [140].
Piers Plowman, lines from, [54].
Porey, John, a mistake concerning him corrected, [248].
Potter, P. an allegorical engraving after him, [199].
Prints, single, relating to the Dance of Death, list of, [188].
Prior, Matthew, his lines on the Dance of Death, [145].
Psalter of 1457, a beautiful initial letter in it noticed, [213].
of Richard II., a manuscript in the British Museum, [222].
R.
Rabbi Santo, a Jewish poet, about 1360, [25].
Ratdolt, a Venetian printer, not, as usually supposed, the inventor of initial or capital letters, [213].
Rembrandt, drawing of a Dance of Death by him, [223].
etching by him, [195].
René, of Anjou, painted a Dance of Death, [221].
Reperdius, Geo. an eminent painter at Lyons, [93].
Revelations, prints of the, [175].
Reusner, his emblems, [179].
Rive, Abbé, his bibliography of the Macaber Dance, [75].
Rivoire, his history of Amiens commended, [47].
Roderic, bishop of Zamora, [17], [32].
Rolandini’s emblems, [180].
Rollenhagius’s emblems, [182].
Roll of the Dance of Death, 1597, [163].
Rowlandson’s Dance of Death, [156], [225], [248].
Rusting, Salomon Van, his Dance of Death, [131].
S.