A clothed martyr kneels in a guillotine, and a soldier raises its blade to behead him. The martyr's hands are bound behind his back, and the soldier braces himself against the guillotine. (Cartouche: "Here with a certayne engine they are beheaded. 66.128." ["Here with a certain engine they are beheaded. 66. 128."]). This woodcut appears on the "Table of the Ten First Persecutions of the Primitive Church" foldout illustration in the second (1570) and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/1A (detail). JPEG file (385 KB).
"MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection).
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