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Summary: Early sermon of Luther's on preparing for death. One of twenty-two German printings to appear in six years.

Summary: Fourth edition of the "Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation," one of Luther's most important pamphlets, in which he develops some of the central ideas of his theology, including the principle of universal priesthood. He also discusses the possibility of a German national church.

Summary: Second Wittenberg (and first 1520) printing of a sermon by Luther on the Sacrament of Baptism.

Summary: This exposition of the Lord's Prayer had its origins in a series of sermons preached by Luther during Lent, 1517. J. Agricola published his transcripts of these sermons. Luther was dissatisfied with Agricola's edition, however, and re-edited the work. This example is from the seventh printing of Luther's edition.

Summary: Luther was persuaded by Karl von Miltitz to write this public statement as a response to certain charges brought against him by his opponents, in particular Mazzolini da Prierio. In this tract, Luther still supports the invocation of the saints, an idea which he abandoned only shortly after.

Summary: "Star of the Clergy" is an anonymous handbook on pastoral care. This manual was widely printed and copied. Lotter, the Leipzig printer who produced this edition, also published Luther's first work.

Summary: De laudibus sanctae crucis (On the praise of the Holy Cross) is a collection of poems and figures, including geometric shapes, letters, drawings and even complex miniatures produced in the early 9th century in the scriptorium of the Abbey at Fulda under the direction of Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz, who also provided the commentary found in the work. The book is an important testimony to Carolingian book art.

A woodcut border to Tommaso de Vio Cajetan's De diuina institutione Pontificatus Romani Pontificis super tota[m] ecclesiam: a Christo in Petro printed in 1521. The border consists of four separate woodcuts depicting floral and decorative column motifs.

A woodcut depicting a cardinal talking to a lay person amidst a vinyard while a skeleton reaches for the cardinal's hat. The woodcut is accompanied by a verse from Isaiah 5:7 translated into French (top) and then reformatted into verse (bottom).

An engraving which depicts Emperor Constantine, Pope Sylvester I and the apocryphal “Donation of Constantine,” which gave the pope control of the imperial palace in Rome along with all the regions of the Western Empire, while Constantine will locate his government in the East. The document is likely an 8th century Carolingian invention, and it supports the idea that the papacy should hold some secular as well as sacred authority.

An engraved portrait of Pope Julius II, who sat as pope from 1503-1513. The portrait shows Julius II sitting in a chair with his coat of arms featured in the upper left corner. The portrait is labeled "IVLIVS. II. PAPA. SAVONENSIS. LIGVR".

Manuscript leaf with rotunda script from the early part of the high Middle Ages. The text is from a copy of the commentary on Job by Gregory the Great, who applied a threefold exegesis to the biblical text, including the literal sense, the tropoligical (or moral) sense and the allegorical sense.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 139th Annual Meeting, held November 22-25, 2003 at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel and Hyatt Regency Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 138th Annual Meeting, held November 23-26, 2002 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 137th Annual Meeting, held November 17-20, 2001 at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 136th Annual Meeting, held November 17-21, 2000 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 135th Annual Meeting, held November 20-23, 1999 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 134th Annual Meeting, held November 21-24, 1998 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Walt Disney World Dolphin in Orlando, Florida.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 134th Annual Meeting, held November 21-24, 1998 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Walt Disney World Dolphin in Orlando, Florida.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 133rd Annual Meeting, held November 22-25, 1997 at the San Francisco Hilton, Hotel Nikko, and Parc Fifty-five Hotel in San Francisco, California.

A collection of the SBL Seminar Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature's 132nd Annual Meeting, held November 21-28, 1996 at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana.