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Book of Hours
Belgium, Cambrai, 1490-1500
MS M.116 fol. 172v

Personification of Death as skeleton, raising right arm, holding arrow around which curls scroll inscribed COGITA MORI, holding mirror with left hand, with drapery over his left arm.

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