192 The Dance of Death.

Q. Death very quietly leads away a nun.

R. Death and the fool, who strikes at him with hisbauble.

S. Exhibits two Deaths, one of whom is in a verylicentious action with a female, whilst the other runs offwith an hour-glass on his back.

T. A minstrel with his pipe, lying prostrate on theground, is dragged away by one Death, whilst anotherpours something from a vessel into his mouth.

V. A man on horseback endeavouring to escape fromDeath, is seized by him behind.

W. Death and the hermit.

X. Death and the Devil among the gamblers.

Y. Death, the nurse, and the infant.

Z. The last Judgment.

But they were not only used at Basle by BebeliusIsingrin and Cratander, but also at Strasburg by Wolf-gang Cephaleus, and probably by other printers; becausein an edition of Huttichius's "Romanorum principumeffigies," printed by Cephaleus at Strasburg in 1552, theyappear in a very worn and much used condition. In hisGreek Bible of T526, near half the alphabet were used,some of them by different hands.

They were separately published in a very small volumewithout date, each letter being accompanied with appro-priate scriptural allusions taken from the Vulgate Bible.

They were badly copied, and with occasional variations,for books printed at Strasburg by J. Schott about 1540.Same size as the originals. The same initials were usedby Henry Stainer of Augsburg in 1530.

Schott also used two other sets of a larger size, the samesubjects with variations, and which occur likewise in booksprinted at Frankfort about 1550 by Cyriacus Jacob.

Christopher Froschover, of Zurich, used two alphabetswith the Dance of Death, In Gesner's "BibliothecaUniversalis," printed by him in 1545, folio, he used theletters A, B, C in indifferent copies of the originals withsome variation. In a Vulgate Bible, printed by him in1544, he uses the A and C of the same alphabet, and alsothe following letters, with different subjects, viz. F. Deathblowing a trumpet in his left hand, with the right seizes a