The famous woodcut incunabulum of the Dance of Death

The famous scene of skeletons dancing on a grave, a medieval allegory reminding people that death comes to everyone, no matter what status they attain in life. The Latin letterpress underneath is an adaptation of Petrarch's homage to death, ending ''Without you the life of the suffering is a perennial prison''. The marginalia reads 'Ipse licet fugias pennis velocius Euri / Non tamen effugies tela tremenda necis'', translating as '"Though you yourself may flee on wings swifter than the East wind / You will not escape the terrifying darts of death''. The 'Liber Chronicarum' was first published in Latin on 12 July 1493, then a vernacular edition on the 23 December the same year. An estimated 1400-1500 Latin and 700-1000 German books were printed.