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Front Cover, Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy Wonderful 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

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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The Title Page and Frontispiece Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2002-09-30

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K. Poland his wife and children devoured by rats Wonderful 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 another Wonderful 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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Page 140 with illustrations Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

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

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2002-09-30

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

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

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 alive Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

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

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 dog Wonderful 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. AtOster, a Village inGermany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, both [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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