[Sca-cooks] picture of the cook in a ms. Totentanz (1440ies)

[emilio szabo]

One of the oldest examples of a Totentanz is found in a Heidelberg manuscript. 
The passage about death and the cook is transcribed and translated into English 
here.


http://www.dodedans.com/Eheid21.htm


If you want to have a look at the Heidelberg codex (cpg 314) go here:


http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg314


Further information about the content of the manuscript is here:


http://www.handschriftencensus.de/4904


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