In this book is contained/
First a Prologue to the Reader about
Four kinds of Death.
Thereupon Death speaks to the Persons/
and answers them all finally.
My dear friends, I'm learning,
which I'm about to tell you,
that the world is totally infested with sin.
This has now been forgotten for a long time.
If you want to see the original page, click on the little picture to the left.
If you want to read
the page in the original medieval Danish, click the red-and-white flag at
the top right corner of this page.
The illustration on this page does not appear in the Lübeckian dances of death so
it must have been made in Denmark. Notice that the scene takes place outdoors and that the person who speaks
does not resemble a preacher. One must rather think of a play where prologus is introducing the act.
The left page (and a few letters on the right page) are missing from the only existing copy of
Copenhagen's Dance of Death and has been restored using Dødedantz (the 1634-edition).
(1)summary....: You may wonder why the text
starts with »a final summary«.
As this restoration shows,
»(Thereupon) A final summary and admonition« is not a part of the text,
but rather the title of the last chapter of the book and thus the last line of the table of contents.
