Martin Luther in the Age of Print

Title

Martin Luther in the Age of Print

Description

Commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the announcement by Martin Luther (1483–1546) of his Ninety-five Theses against indulgences, and the beginning of the Reformation, this exhibition serves as an introduction to the reformer and his printed works

Creator

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Publisher

SMU Libraries

Date

Originally exhibited August 7– December 15, 2017

Collection Items

ACY0200
Portrait of Luther by Lucas Cranach on verso of title page, hand colored.

AFG4826
Full page portrait of Luther by Lucas Cranach.

AFR1245
Medallion portrait of M. Luther on title page and two full-page portraits (Martin Luther and Johann Friedrich of Saxony) by Lucas Cranach the Younger in text.

BRF0139
Later Broadside Portrait of Martin Luther, Hand-Colored and Annotated

06164
First edition of the Bible in German and is the first edition of the Bible printed in any language other than Latin.

06171
The majority of the 109 woodcuts used in this Nuremberg edition of the German Bible of 1483 originally were produced in Cologne for Heinrich Quentell's Low German Bible of c. 1478. The woodcuts were hand colored.

06172
Four horsemen of the apocalypse pictured together as typical of 15th century German art. The illustrations are hand-colored wood engravings.

06174
Low German (Niederdeutsch) Bible translation of the Bible with woodcuts by anonymous artists.

07015
Indulgence offered for the remission of sins in the Jubilee Year of 1480. With Schoeffer's Lombard initial L and "Psalter" initial M. The type used for the headings is Gutenberg's 42-line Bible type.

06991
Indulgence printed during the reign of Pope Innocent VIII. This copy survives as four strips of binder's waste recovered from an old volume.

07047
The only copy of a previously unrecorded Castilian indulgence for the living, for the crusade against the Muslims in Granada.

BRF0045
Two indulgence forms offering indulgences for financial contributions for a naval expedition against the Turks.

BRA1993
Indulgence raising funds to rebuild the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome.

BRB0165/A
The first collection of the writings of Martin Luther speaking out against indulgences, namely the abuse of them.

AER9103
Papal bull identifying teachings of Martin Luther that were heretical and insisted that Luther recant his works or he would be excommunicated.

31340
Luther's response to the papal bull "Exsurge Domine". He calls the Pope the Antichrist and noted that the Pope and his cardinals needed to be excommunicated.

AER9084
Luther's more controlled, sober, and systematic response to the Papal Bull of 1520.

ACY2628
Luther's publication speaking out against the sacraments of the Catholic Church based on his interpretation of the Bible.

BRA2640
Luther's sermons regarding the sacrament of Communion. The title page has a woodcut of the Seven Sacraments.

BRA0120
Luther's work discussing his doctrine of justification by faith alone. He included a letter to Pope Leo X in the preface.

00630
In response to Luther's critique of indulgences and sacraments, King Henry VIII defended the sacraments in this work dedicated to Pope Leo X.

ACZ7178
Catalog of heretical writings compiled during the early years of the Protestant Reforamtion. It identfied works of Luther and his followers as heretical and served as the basis for lists of prohibited books.

BRA0326
Second edition of the Catalogus haereticorum. An allegorical woodcut is included showing that heretics are destined for hell.

BRA2051
Publication by Joachim von der Heiden urging Katharina von Bora to repent and return to her monastic seclusion. This came after she escaped from her convent in 1523 and married Martin Luther in 1525.

BRA2052
Johann Hasenberg attacked Katharina von Bora in this publication addressed to Martin Luther. Included are woodcuts that depict Martin Luther and his wife proceeding to the gates of hell.
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