Selige Sterbens-Kunst : Welche kan gesungen werden In der Melodey Wol dem Menschen der wandlet nicht. Auß tieffer Noth schrey ich zu dir. Es ist das Heyl uns kommen her. Wann mein Stündlein vorhanden ist
A German devotional songbook, Selige Sterbens-Kunst, by Johann Jakob Irminger, published in 1706 by Jacob Anthoni Vulpi for Protestant readers, offering hymn texts on the art of dying well. Its single woodcut shows a stylised bundle of wheat ears rising from a heap of cut stalks and a small tower-like structure, a motif a designer could adapt for harvest, mortality or emblematic borders.
