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Rev. P. Abraham a S. Clara ... Besonders meubliert- und gezierte Todten-Capelle, oder, Allgemeiner Todten-Spiegel : darinnen alle Menschen, wes Standes sie sind ...

Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1644-1709, Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection · 1711 · Nürnberg : Christoph Weigel ; Würzburg : Druckts Martin Frantz Hertz · 96 pictures

A German devotional emblem book by the Augustinian preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara, printed in Nuremberg and Würzburg in 1711 for a general readership of every social rank. Its pictures are small copperplate engravings in oval frames with Latin or German mottoes beneath, in which skeletons confront people of all stations, and a designer might draw on their framed-medallion layouts and scroll cartouches.

Dance of death

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