Memento Mori

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Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

The Last Judgement: the raising of the dead, the blessed in Abraham's ...

The parable of Dives and poor Lazarus: Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, Div...

Death of Judas: Judas hangs himself from a tree

Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Lazarus and Dives: in hell Dives sees Lazarus in paradise; Dives point...

Death of Solomon

Memento Mori from BL Eg 1070, f. 53

Full-page miniature of a Memento Mori, with the banner 'Memento homo quod sinis es et in sinere reverteris' [Remember, man, that you are dust and to dust you will return). Image taken from f. 53 of Book of Hour... more

Memento Mori from BL Eg 1070, f. 53

Detail of a full-page miniature of a Memento Mori. Image taken from f. 53 of Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René d'Anjou'). Written in Latin, calendar and rubrics in French.

Large illuminated initial, border work, small initials, rubric, placem...

The Last Judgement: Christ on a rainbow with Mary and St. John, St. Pe...

Round miniatures of souls in torment, skull, and sun.

Death, as a skeleton holding a scythe, rides a cart drawn by black oxe...

Memento mori. [Portrait of Lincoln within a black border containing 13...

Portrait of Lincoln within a black mourning border containing 13 stars.

[Woman, seated, facing skeleton symbolizing death] / Dall...(?)

Illus. in: Touches of nature, 1867, plate 42. Reference copy in SPECIFIC SUBJ FILE (GR) - Death.

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado...

Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general. México. Imp... more

Revunvio de calaveras de catrines y borrachos, de viejos y de muchacho...

Broadside shows a calavera instructing people to go into the graveyard. The text conveys how the time will come for everyone to end up there. A second calavera in verse (epitaph) is titled "Calavera widows, cal... more

The old man and death

Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.14). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Aesop's Fables, p. 153.

Monopoly in Hades--How the place will be run, two years after Jay Goul...

Illustration showing Jay Gould as the Devil holding a paper labeled "Majority of Stock", standing outside an office labeled "Successor to Satan"; he is presiding over the "Hades & World Lightning Transportation... more

Hell according to the Burmese.

A snowball in hell - what chance has it got? / K.

Illustration shows Hell labeled "Wall Street", where a huge snowball shaped like a human head, labeled "The Public", dripping money, melts amid flames and steam labeled "Manipulation, Fake Tips, Pool, [and] Cor... more

[What death takes from those who fall enters into those who are left s...

Drawing shows only the right half of a two page spread with Death on horseback and as a skeleton carrying a scythe (the blade of which appears in the missing left half) racing to the right over bodies and the w... more

The last ditch / C. D. Gibson.

Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy pushing a German soldier labeled "Militarism" into a ditch in which a skeleton awaits him with open arms. Title from Life magazine. Published in: Life, 1917 March 22, pp... more

Mural by the Mojado Brothers after the Mexican cartoonist Guadalupe Po...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by photographer. Mural by the Mojado Brothers, showing two skeletons in conversation, "So which color were you." Forms part of the Vergara Photograph Colle... more

Spooky doorway to a Halloween-season attraction in Fort Worth, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... more

Numa Pompilius and Pythagoras by mystification of the devils resort to...

The Trinity, groups of men, and devils in hell: wise men, half way bet...

Harrowing of hell

The Last Judgement: Christ on a rainbow raises the dead in the presenc...

Master teaching his pupils on heaven and hell

True Religion liberating mankind from the gods: devils falling into he...

Demons using every effort to distract the men from their prayer; God t...

Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

Souls ascending to Janus and Terminus, who are holding the world; soul...

Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

Memento Mori from BL Add 39636, ff. 5-8, 11-12, 30-32, f. 6

Historiated initial 'D' of a Memento Mori, measuring 125 x 110. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '..antur'. Image taken from f. 6 of Cuttings from a Gradual. Written in Latin.

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN II 3, p. 41v – Matriculation Registe...

Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Incunabulum woodcut e

Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Incunabulum woodcut g

Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Incunabulum woodcut h

Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Incunabulum woodcut l

Collection of medieval manuscript pages from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.