The Dance of Death. Douce Francis

Engelhusii ap. Leibnitz. Script. Brunsvicens. II. 1082; Chronicon. S. Ægidii, ap. Leibnitz. iii. 582; Cantipranus de apibus; & Cæsarius Heisterbach. de Miraculis; in whose works several veracious and amusing stories of other instances of divine vengeance against dancing in general may be found. The most entertaining of all the dancing stories is that of the friar and the boy, as it occurs among the popular penny histories, of which, in one edition at least, it is, undoubtedly, the very best.

26

Lib. i. Eleg. iii.

27

Æn. lib. vi. l. 44.

28

Millin. Magaz. Encycl. 1813, tom. i. p. 200.

29

Gori Mus. Florentin. tom. i. pl. 91, No. 3.

30

Hist. Engl. Poetry, vol. ii. p. 43, edit. 8vo. and Carpentier. Suppl. ad Ducang. v. Machabæorum chorea.

31

Id. ii. 364.

32

Hist. des Ducs des Bourgogne, tom. v. p. 1821.

33

Hist. de René d’Anjou, tom. i. p. 54.

34

Dulaure. Hist. Physique, &c. de Paris, 1821, tom. ii. p. 552.

35

Recherches sur les Danses des Morts. Dijon et Paris, 1826, 8vo. p. xxxiv. et seq.

36

Mercure de France, Sept. 1742. Carpentier. Suppl. ad Ducang. v. Machabæorum chorea.

37

Bibl. Reg. 8 B. vi. Lansd. MS. 397.

38

Madrid. 1779, 8vo. p. 179.

39

Bibl. Med. et Inf. Ætat. tom. v. p. 1.

40

Recherches sur les Danses de Mort, pp. 79 80.

41

Passim.

42

Modern edition of the Danse Macabre.

43

Journal de Charles VII.

44

Lansd. MS. No. 397 – 20.

45

Peignot Recherches, p. 109.

46

Mélange d’une Grande Bibliothèque, tom. vii. p. 22.

47

Bibl. Instruc. No. 3109.

48

Catal. La Valliere No. 2736 – 22.

49

Vasari vite de Pittori, tom. i. p. 183, edit. 1568, 4to.

50

Baldinucci Disegno, ii. 65.

51

Morona Pisa Illustrata, i. 359.

52

Du Breul Antiq. de Paris, 1612, 4to. p. 834, where the verses that accompany the sculpture are given. See likewise Sandrart Acad. Picturæ, p. 101.

53

Peignot Recherches, xxxvii-xxxix.

54

Urtisii epitom. Hist. Basiliensis, 1522, 8vo.

55

Peignot Recherches, xxvi-xxix.

56

Travels, i. 376.

57

Travels, i. 138, edit. 4to.

58

Heinecken Dictionn. des Artistes, iii. 67, et iv. 595. He follows Keysler’s error respecting Hans Bock.

59

Peintre graveur, ix. 398.

60

Essai sur l’Orig. de la Gravure, i. 120.

61

Heinecken Dictionn. des Artistes, i. 222.

62

Recherches, &c. p. 71.

63

Heller Geschiche der holtzchein kunst. Bamberg, 1823, 12mo. p. 126.

64

Basle Guide Book.

65

Recherches, 11 et seq.

66

More on the subject of the Lubeck Dance of Death may be found in 1. An anonymous work, which has on the last leaf, “Dodendantz, anno domini MCCCCXCVI. Lubeck.” 2. “De Dodendantz fan Kaspar Scheit, na der utgave fan, 1558, unde de Lubecker fan, 1463.” This is a poem of four sheets in small 8vo. without mention of the place where printed. 3. Some account of this painting by Ludwig Suhl. Lubeck, 1783, 4to. 4. A poem, in rhyme, with wood-cuts, on 34 leaves, in 8vo. It is fully described from the Helms. library in Brun’s Beitrage zu krit. Bearb. alter handschr. p. 321 et seq. 5. Jacob à Mellen Grundliche Nachbricht von Lubeck, 1713, 8vo. p. 84. 6. Schlott Lubikischers Todtentantz. 1701. 8vo. 7. Berkenmeyer, le curieux antiquaire, 8vo. p. 530; and, 8. Nugent’s Travels, i. 102. 8vo.

67

Biblioth. Med. et inf. ætat. v. 2.

68

Travels, i. 195.

69

Recherches, xlii.

70

Pilkington’s Dict. of Painters, p. 307, edit. Fuseli, who probably follows Fuesli’s work on the Painters. Merian, Topogr. Helvetiæ.

71

Peignot Recherches, xlv. xlvi.

72

Rivoire descr. de l’église cathédrale d’Amiens. Amiens, 1806. 8vo.

73

Recherches, xlvii.

74

Recherches, xlviii.

75

Recherches sur les antiquités de Vienne. 1659. 12mo, p. 15.

76

Dr. Cogan’s Tour to the Rhine, ii. 127.

77

Travels, iii. 328, edit. 4to.

78

Survay of London, p. 615, edit. 1618, 4to.

79

In Tottel’s edition these verses are accompanied with a single wood-cut of Death leading up all ranks of mortals. This was afterwards copied by Hollar, as to general design, in Dugdale’s St. Paul’s, and in the Monasticon.

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Annales, p. 596, edit. 1631. folio. Sir Thomas More, treating of the remembrance of Death, has these words: “But if we not only here this word Death, but also let sink into our heartes, the very fantasye and depe imaginacion thereof, we shall parceive therby that we wer never so gretly moved by the beholding of the Daunce of Death pictured in Poules, as we shal fele ourself stered and altered by the feling of that imaginacion in our hertes. And no marvell. For those pictures expresse only y^e lothely figure of our dead bony bodies, biten away y^e flesh,” &c. – Works, p. 77, edit. 1557, folio.

81

Heylin’s Hist. of the Reformation, p. 73.

82

Cotton MS. Vesp. A. xxv. fo. 181.

83

Leland’s Itin. vol. iv. part i. p. 69. – Meas. for Meas. Act iii. sc. 1.

84

Hutchinson’s Northumberland, i. 98.

85

Warton’s H. E. Poetry, ii. 43, edit. 8vo.

86

And see a portion of Orgagna’s painting at the Campo Santo at Pisa, mentioned before in p. 33.

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From the Author’s own inspection.