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Eyn Sendebrieff von dem harten buchlin widder die bawren / Martinus Luther. Wittemberg. M.D.XXV; Title page recto
In this work, published after his controversial Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants and after the peak of the uprisings, Luther does not retract his attacks levelled there, which many of his allies and supporters had decried, though he…
Eyn Sermon geprediget vom Pawren zů Werdt, bey Nürmberg, am Sontag vor Fassnacht, vo[n] dem freyen willen des Mennschen; Title page recto
"The peasant from Wöhrd-by-Nuremberg" was an appellation for the author of this sermon, an itinerant radical preacher at the time of German Peasants’ War. Its theme of the religious value of the layperson indicates how one of Luther’s defining…
al-Qurʾān. Cover
This is a relatively early example of a revival in illumination (tazhib) designs which flourished in the 1880s. Subtle allusions to Qur'anic verses are given through the presence of a bee (Q16:68-69) and moth (Q101:4).
Ziyārat-i ʻĀshūrāʼ. Cover
Abu Talib was a lacquer artist, active between ca. 1840-70, who specialized in abstract marbled and "engine-turned" designs. […]
