62y.—Initial capital letter “Y” from Dance of Death Alphabet.details

62y.—Initial capital letter “Y” from Dance of Death Alphabet.

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This decorative initial letter “Y”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523.

In the drop cap Y, Death is about to take a baby from its crib while the terrified mother looks on. There was associated text originally from the start of Job Chapter 14, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”

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23128 dots per inch (approximately)