This short pamphlet contains a song to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the singing or reading of which obtains an indulgence of 40 days. Indulgences were very popular with printers, as they were typically quite short texts and could be set up and sold in…
Luther studied the Hebrew Psalms – 150 poetic texts of devotion, praise, and lament – intensively from 1513-15 and he returned to them throughout his life.
Published in Zwickau, a hotbed of the radical appropriation of his ideas that Luther came to disdain. The caption for the woodcut reads: "In human terms I am a peasant. God gives his grace where he thinks fit." Diepold Peringer, author of this item…