[D] Dance of death scene (c.1460)

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This illustration of death appears in an image from a French book of hours from the second half of the fifteenth century. This features a dance of death (danse macabre) scene, in which a corpse carrying a coffin leads on figures representing the pope, a cardinal and a king.

For more information on this manuscript and others held in the University of Liverpool Library's Special Collections & Archives, see https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/colldescs/medrenmss.html

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    University of Liverpool Library Special Collections & Archives, MS F.2.14, f. 82r. By courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library.
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