Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)

Relief, copy of the 15th-century original now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inv. Gd 349). This original is likely a relic of the old plague cemetery near St. John's Church, established in the late 14th century, which also included the Holzschuher Chapel (or its predecessor, depicted in Albrecht Dürer's watercolor). The figure of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint against the plague, was formerly located on grave no. 942.

An inscription on the same gravestone, quoted in Johann Martin Trechsel, also known as Großkopf, *Verneuertes Gedächtnis des nürnbergischen Johannis Kirch Hof* (Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1736, p. 307), refers to a plague epidemic in which 13 people died in a single household in one day: Was that not a longing and sorrowful lament?

Was that not a longing and sorrowful sorrow? :

I died in my own house on the day of thirteen thirteen in 1427.

The figure of St. Sebastian and the inscription are mentioned in Nuremberg chronicles from the second half of the 16th century, including in Hs 4413a, fol. 117v (in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). The city clerk Johannes Müllner reports in his annals, completed in 1623 after 25 years of work, that the year 1427 had been renewed a few years earlier. He doubted its accuracy, however, because several chronicles only record a major plague epidemic in Nuremberg in 1437.

The inscription was first printed, albeit in abbreviated form and without mentioning the year or the figure of St. Sebastian, in Zacharias Praetorius's *Sacer Thesaurus*, Frankfurt 1577, fol. 449r.

Wilhelm Raabe mentions the statue of St. Sebastian with an inscription and the year 1427 in his novella "Des Reiches Krone" (The Crown of the Empire), written in 1870.

Also on grave no. 940:

Damaged epitaph of Arnold Lang and his first wife, Magdalena Fröschel, from 1591. The heraldic stonemason Arnold Lang married Magdalena Fröschel on December 3, 1555. She was buried on November 7, 1588. He subsequently married Ursula Bernstein on February 22, 1591. The epitaph was only acquired after Lang had remarried, hence the reference in the inscription that Magdalena Fröschel was Lang's first wife,

and a modern epitaph (Ferrari)