Ein schön news Lied, Ich hab mein Sach Gott haimgestelt, Er machts mit mir wies im gefelt, etc. Jm Thon, Es ist auff Erden kein schwerers leyden, etc. Hernacher ein schöner spruch, O Mensch mit fleiß anschawe mich, etc. Hodie mihi, cras tibi
A German broadside ballad printed in 1590 by Michael Manger, held by the ZB Zürich, and sold to ordinary readers who bought song sheets to sing or read aloud. The woodcut below the text shows a seated musician playing a fiddle or viol to a reclining man in a tall-backed bed, under the Latin motto Hodie mihi, cras tibi, 'today me, tomorrow you'. A designer might take its dense black-letter layout and compact woodcut vignette as a model for memento mori imagery and early modern print typography.
