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

by Francis Douce

[127] Nugæ, lib. vi. carm. 12.

[128] Baldinucci notizie d’é professori del disegno, tom. iii. p. 317, 4to. edit. where the inscription on it is given.

[129] Norfolk MS. 97, now in the Brit. Museum.

[130] Harl. MS. 4718.

[131] Acad. Pictur. 239.

[132] Strype’s Annals, I. 272, where the curious dialogue that ensued on the occasion is preserved.

[133] Catal. de la bibliothèque du Roi. II. 153.

[134] These initial letters have already been mentioned in p. [101-102]. The elegant initials in Dr. Henderson’s excellent work on modern wines, and those in Dr. Nott’s Bristol edition of Decker’s Gull’s horn-book, should not pass unnoticed on this occasion.

[135] See before in p. [97].

[136] Zani saw this alphabet at Dresden, and ascribes it likewise to Lutzenberger. See his Enciclop. Metodica, Par. I. vol. x. p. 467.