Leiden University - Dissection Hall, 1610

Leiden was already a university town by the time the Pilgrims moved there. This engraving - Anatomical Theater in Leiden - is from 1610. It was sold as a souvenir at the University and depicts men and women touring the dissection hall.

The engraving includes various flags, carried by skeletons, which say:

Nascentes morimur (which, translated from Latin, means "to be born is to die")

Mors ultima linea rerum (meaning, "death is the line that marks the end of all")

Mors sceptra ligonibus aeqvat (or, "death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade")

Pulvis & umbra sumis ("we are dust and shadow").

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