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Fac-simile of one of the Cuts in the LIFE OF ANTICHRIST: printed circ. 1430. [To face p. xxxiii.

The reader is next presented, in the OPPOSITE PAGE, with an accurate fac-simile of the whole of the 38th cut, from which he will judge of the character of the type and figures.* It must be allowed that the latter are not divested of expression; considering the very early period of the art in which they were executed.

The last five cuts, as was before observed, occupy the whole page, without any lineal section. The fourth of these, with a title at top,t referring to the Compendium theologie,' is of a different cast from the preceding. A table, covered with a cloth, and seven dishes or plates, are in the centre; behind which are three figures, a female between two males. Before the cloth, and in the foreground of the picture, is a couple, of which the ensuing is, in part, a fac-simile; the figures extend below to about two inches.

Perhaps it may be as well to add a regular list of the cuts, as Heinecken has given the summaries of their contents.

The translation of the German title is as follows: ANTICHRIST falls down as if he were dead, and sleeps by enchantment; so that all princes and lords, and a multitude of people, see him dead, and begin to cry and lament for their Lord.'

t The translation of this German title, or head-piece to the cut, is, in part, literally thus: When ANTICHRIST was slain, his servants said they had neither God nor Lord, and then lived in a sinful manner, and in the pleasures of love,' &c.

The first page is blank, and on the other side there is a discourse of 32 lines, which begins:

IMPRESSION.

I. Here begins the History of Antichrist, taken from many books, how and by whom he shall be born, &c. Plate without division. The father of Antichrist is here seated, and seeks his daughter in marriage.

II. This, and the following cuts, as far as XXII, are divided into two compartments.

Jacob predicts to his son what will happen, &c.

The Conception of Antichrist, &c.

III. The Birth of Antichrist, &c.

The dissoluteness of Antichrist at Bethsaida, &c.

IV. The Circumcision of Antichrist at Jerusalem, &c.
The Jews begin to rebuild the temple of Solomon, &c.

V. Antichrist has knowing adepts with him, &c.

Antichrist's voyage from Capernaum to Jerusalem, &c.
VI. The Prophets Elias and Enoch visit Antichrist, &c.
Elias preaches against Antichrist, &c.

VII. Enoch preaches against Antichrist, &c.
Antichrist overturns all the laws, &c.

VIII. Antichrist preaches a new doctrine, &c.

He discovers a new method to seduce the world, &c.

IX. He commands the dry trees to flourish, &c.

He performs miracles, &c.

X. He marks, with a sign, the foreheads of the Jews, &c.

He sends ambassadors, &c.

XI. One of Antichrist's ambassadors preaches to the King of
Egypt, &c.

Another preaches to the King of Libia, &c.

XII. Another preaches to the King of Ethiopia, &c.
Another preaches to the Queen of the Amazons.

XIII. Another preaches to all Christendom.

Here begins the great march of all the world, and all the
Kings to Antichrist.

IMPRESSION.

XIV. The King of Egypt, the King of Libia, &c.

Antichrist gives gold and silver to those who believe in him, &c.

XV. Antichrist performs miracles and sorceries, &c.

The King of Egypt and the King of Ethiopia, with all their people, are marked, &c.

XVI. The King of Libia will not obey Antichrist.

At last the King and his people believe in Antichrist, &c.

XVII. Antichrist's ambassadors bring many people over to him, &c. They bring captive all those who do not believe in him.

XVIII. Antichrist orders them to be put to the torture, &c.

The people hide themselves for fear of being made martyrs, &c.

XIX. Here Antichrist is seated in all his majesty, &c.

He orders the prophets Elias and Enoch to be put to death. XX. The Doctors think themselves unworthy, and preach no more. Antichrist falls upon the earth as if he was dead, &c.

(See the Fac-simile opposite p. xxxiii.)

XXI. Antichrist's resurrection at the third day, &c.

By the power of the Devil and his magic, he makes fire from heaven to fall upon his disciples, &c.

XXII. Antichrist convokes all the Princes and Lords, &c.

XXIII. Antichrist is punished by the Spirit from the mouth of the Lord, &c.

XXIV. Antichrist is taken by the Devil to hell, &c.

XXV. Antichrist is struck, &c.

XXVI. Antichrist finishes his life in all sorts of wickedness, &c.

In this copy, as in that of the Ars Memorandi,' &c. the figures are rudely coloured in oil. It is, upon the whole, in very good condition; and bound with another edition of a later date, too imperfect to form a distinct article: although meriting the subjoined notice of it.*

It begins, on the recto of the first leaf, with a full page of text, ornamented at top, and having the capital initial ornamented. The type is not very unlike that of John Zeiner of Ulm. The wooing of Antichrist, or seeking in marriage, is on the reverse. The conception is at bottom of the ensuing page; sufficiently gross. This copy is imperfect, having only 12 leaves; the text being printed on the recto and reverse of each leaf. The cuts, although very rude, have not that air of antiquity, either in their design or engraving, which characterises the above