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Front Cover, Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and MercyWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

This tiny book is bound in full leather.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-28

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The Title Page and FrontispieceWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

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Added: 2002-09-30

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An Owl in the Pope’s CouncilWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The woodcut shows people using sticks to get rid of an owl that had entered a meeting of the pope, the people there taking this as a supernatural event. Pope John the Twenty Third called a Council at [...]

Keywords: woodcuts, popes, people, meetings, owls, birds, omens, portents, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-02-01

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Page 140 with illustrationsWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

A bloudy villain murders 3 children, and, A Virgin destroyed by venemous Serpants.

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Added: 2002-09-30

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K. Poland his wife and children devoured by ratsWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

This probably refers to King Popielius, or Popiel, of Poland, who was said to have been eaten by rats along with his wife and children, in A.D. 830.

Keywords: people, death, rats, towers, castles, colour

Places shown: Poland

Added: 2006-10-29

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Seamen in great distress eat one anotherWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s OrderWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88” “henry the Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death of Thomas Becket, whom the Pope made St. Thomas for op [...]

Keywords: penance, punishments, religion, people, royalty, bare feet, woodcuts, cathedrals, interiors, monks, religion, christianity, grayscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-26

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up aliveWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The chapter heading is Chap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page say The woful Deaths of Wi [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale

Places shown: Prague; Bohemia

Added: 2006-03-16

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A Blasphemer turned into a black dogWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog.

Keywords: religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-27

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A Woman torn in pieces by the Devil. pa. 14.Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, bo [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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