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Selige Sterbens-Kunst : Welche kan gesungen werden In der Melodey: Wol dem Menschen der wandelt nicht. Auß tieffer Noht schrey ich zu dir. Es ist das Heyl uns kommen her. Wann mein Stündlein vorhanden ist

Irminger, Johann Jakob · 1698 · [Jacob Anthoni Vulpi] · 1 picture

A German devotional songbook, Selige Sterbens-Kunst, written by Johann Jakob Irminger and published in 1698, meant for singing hymns on the art of dying well. The woodcut at the foot of the title page shows a skull with a crown of wheat or palm-like fronds, a stacked crossbone motif, and a lettered line 'Gedruckt im Jahr Christi 16', a memento mori emblem a designer could draw on for mortality-themed graphics.

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