
De BischopPax domini nostri unde sine grote barmherticheit |
De doetHer bischop, du werest gekoren to vorende prelatûr; |
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Strangely, there's one more picture of the bishop - complete with wall and hilly landscape.
I have read (but unfortunately I've forgotten where I read it) that the woodcut originated from the Mohnkopf-printery that used in Euangelia from 1492 and Speygel der leyen from 1496, where it was supposed to depict the holy Augustin. But this is probably wrong since Albert Schramm in Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke volume 12 page 6 tells us that the bishop, (and the pope, archbishop, cardinal and abbot) are the samme woodcuts as in the dances of death: "[...] ebenso die Bilder des Papstes, des Cardinals, des Erzbischofs und Bischofs. Letzere stammen aus dem Totentanz;" and "Die ersten vier sind dem Lübecker Totentanz entnommen (Papst, Kardinal, Bischof, Abt);". Schramm adds to the confusion since there doesn't appear any archbishop in the Lübeckian dances of death.
At any rate, Hans Vingaard used the picture in 1529 in the Danish Reformer, Hans Tausen's, answer to the bishop of Odense, where the picture was supposed to resemble the said bishop. This book was reprinted in 1987 in the book "Fem Reformationsskrifter trykt af Hans Vingaard i Viborg 1528-1530". Click the picture to see the entire page.

(1) St. Paul's 1st letter to Timothy 3, 2-7: "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; [...]
(2) Christ asked Saint Peter three times to watch his congregation in John 21, 15-17: »So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep«.
External link: King James Bible: The gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 21