Zwey schöne Geistliche Lieder, Das erst, Wann myn stündlin vorhanden ist, etc. Das ander, Hilff suoch allein guot freünde mein, etc
A late sixteenth-century German-language book of two sacred hymns, printed in 1590 with a publisher given as Vinzenz im Hof, and held by the Zurich Central Library. The title page woodcut shows a skeleton figure seizing a man while others stand by, a memento mori image aimed at a devout lay readership. A designer could draw on its stark black-line woodcut contrast, the dense blackletter title block, and the skeletal death motif for mortality-themed graphics.
