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Description: From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine of 1315–1317. Death ("Mors") sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine ("Fames") points to her hungry mouth.
Title: Great famine
Credit: Own work
Author: Scanned (by me) from the cover of The Great Famine (1996) by William Chester Jordan. Original cover art from a photograph courtesy of Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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