Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther at the Birth of the Modern World

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Summary Declaration of a Bull of Indulgences Against the Turks
Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503)
Mainz: Peter Schöffer, ca. 1500
Burke Van Ess 2:4

Printed by Gutenburg’s associate Peter Schöffer, possibly for one of the more successful indulgence sellers, Raymond Peraudi. The document enumerates a variety of indulgences available for those who would support a crusade against the Ottoman Empire, which at that point reached well into the Balkan Peninsula to the frontier of the Holy Roman Empire and Luther’s Germany.