Death to the curate | |
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The curate | |
.........n ghehauen |
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Prüfer's lithograph from 1883 at the top of this page was made following a ham-fisted renovation of the painting. As Lübke's lithograph from 1861 (to the right) shows, the reality was that the curate and the official and "their" Death's were all but obliterated.
In fact it's only a guess that the second dancer was a curate, and this guess is based on the fact that in Lübeck the curate comes before the parish clerk.
Footnotes: (1)
There's a separate section about books of hours.