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This book was printed by Nicole de La Barre in 1518. Woodcuts of authors/authorities in front of their writing desks were common, but the presence of an angel with a scroll indicates that this particular woodcut was originally designed for the final authority in La Danse Macabre.
In fact it looks like a laterally inversed copy of
Vérard.
"Spes mea deus" means God is my hope. There's a larger version here: Mer des croniques.
Tags for this image: Authority, Paris
The Dance of Death ⇒
Pictures #71 ⇒
Mer des croniques