In preparation for my annual Rare Book Room show & tell to start the semester, I paid closer attention the embossed cover images and text on our 1580 Book of Concord. The front cover has a good pious verse on it: VOLUNTATEM TIMENCIVM SE FACIET DOMINUS -- The Lord fulfills the desire of all who fear him (Ps 145:19).
The back cover, however, goes all in with the following text and image: SIC PEREANT OMNES INIMICI TVI DOMINE -- Thus shall all your enemies perish, O Lord! (Judges 5:31, the song of Deborah). The accompanying image shows the story of Jael wife of Heber from Judges 4:21. You can look it up yourself. Proof that if you find theology or history dull, you're doing it wrong. :)
Maybe fellow Reformation historians know if this image gives a clue to the book's original owner? Or was this common for 1580 editions? It's a Dresden edition by Stoeckel & Bergen, with no 'marriage booklet.'
The back cover, however, goes all in with the following text and image: SIC PEREANT OMNES INIMICI TVI DOMINE -- Thus shall all your enemies perish, O Lord! (Judges 5:31, the song of Deborah). The accompanying image shows the story of Jael wife of Heber from Judges 4:21. You can look it up yourself. Proof that if you find theology or history dull, you're doing it wrong. :)
Maybe fellow Reformation historians know if this image gives a clue to the book's original owner? Or was this common for 1580 editions? It's a Dresden edition by Stoeckel & Bergen, with no 'marriage booklet.'