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24 August 2014

Der Scharfrichter

Just because I had these on file:

De carnifice (Vom Scharfrichter) - Damhouder, Praxis rerum criminalium, Cap. CLII, 1562Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Siehe: Damhouder, Joost de: Praxis rerum criminalium iconibus illustrata. Antwerpen - Beller - 1562, BSB 4 crim. 43

A woodcut by Hans Döring from the year 1545 shows a Militärscharfrichter with his servants


Cropped selection from Execution of the defenders of Greifensee during the Old Zürich War 1444, from Schodeler's chronicle, ca. 1515.
From a flyer describing the public execution of 16th-century pirate Klein Henszlein and his crew in Hamburg, 1573
 

Beheading from the Cosmographie Universelle of Munster: in folio, Basle, 1552

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