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• Proclamations. 1560-09-19 (Imprinted at London : In Povvles Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, [1560]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Einigerlei Bild. English ([London : T. Godfray for W. Marshall, 1535?]), by Martin Bucer, Jacobus Bedrotus, and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De historia SS. imaginum et picturarum, pro vero earum usu contra abusus, libri quatuor (Typis Academicis, 1771), by Johannes Molanus, Jean Noël Paquot, and Belgium) Typi Academici (Louvain (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Der Bilderstreit, ein Kampf der griechischen Kirche um ihre Eigenart und um ihre Freiheit (Friedrich Andreas Berthes, 1890), by Karl Schwarzlose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien zur Geschichte des byzantinischen Bilderstreites (M. & H. Marcus, 1929), by Georgije Ostrogorski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dogmaticheskoe znachenīe Sedʹmago Vselenskago Sobora : nauchno-istoricheskoe izsli︠e︡dovanīe vazhnosti i neobkhodimosti ikonopochitanīi︠a︡, po povodu zabluzhdenīi︠a︡ g. Pashkova i ego edinomyshlennikov (V Pridvornoĭ Tip. V. Gaspera, 1884), by Gr Ostroumov (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. John Damascene on holy images (pros tous diavallontas tas hagias eikonas) ; followed by three sermons on the Assumption (koimēsis) (Thomas Baker, 1898), by Saint John of Damascus (page images at HathiTrust)
• De cultu imaginum libellus e codice Arabico nunc primum editus, latine versus, illustratus. (1897), by bp. of Harrān Theōdūrus Abū Qurra and J. P. Arendzen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise and fall of the heresy of iconoclasts; or, Image-breakers : Being a brief relation of the lives and deaths of those emperors of the East, who first set it up and maintain'd it, or zealously oppos'd and finally crush'd it. From the year 717 to 867. (Printed for Tho. Meighan, 1731), by Robert Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• La querlle des images (VIIIe-IXe siècles) (Librairie Bloud & cie, 1904), by Louis Bréhier (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. John Damascene on holy images; followed by three sermons on the Assumption. (T. Baker, 1898), by Saint John of Damascus and Mary H. Allies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgīĭ Kipri︠a︡nin i Īoann Īerusalimli︠a︡nin, dva maloizvi︠e︡stnykh bort︠s︡a za pravoslavīe v VIII vi︠e︡ki︠e︡. (Tip. I.N. Skorokhodova, 1901), by B. M. Melīoranskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament : for the speedy demolishing of all organs, images, and all manner of superstitious monuments in all cathedrall parish-churches and chappels, throughout the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, the better to accomplish the blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and things illegal in the worship of God. (Printed for John Wright, 1644), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caroli Magni Capitulare de imaginibus (Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1924), by Bishop of Orléans Theodulf, Emperor Charlemagne, and Beda Bastgen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
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• Gerardi Ioannis Vossii De theologia gentili, et physiologia Christiana, sive De origine ac progressu idololatriae : ad veterum gesta, ac rerum naturam, reductae : de que naturae mirandis, quibus homo adducitur ad Deum .. (Apud Ioh. & Cornelium Blaeu, 1642), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)
• An answer to several late treatises, occasioned by a book entituled A discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome, and the hazard of salvation in the communion of it. The first part (Printed by R.W. for Henry Mortlock, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1673), by Edward Stillingfleet and Henry Mortlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The papist represented, and not misrepresented : being in answer to the first sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrine and practices of the Church of Rome. (Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1687), by John Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The papist represented, and not misrepresented : being in answer to the second sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented, and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the cross. (Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1687), by John Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• De imaginibus libri IV (Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1642), by Jean Daillé, Bonaventure Elzevir, and Abraham Elzevir (page images at HathiTrust)
• De sacro et publico apud ethnicos pictarum tabularum cultu (Apud Petrum Valvasensem, 1753), by Casto Innocente Ansaldi and Pietro Valvasense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle statue & imagini (s.n.], 1553), by Guido Zonca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prelacy an idol, and prelates idolaters : all prelatists, maintainers of, and complyers with prelacy, charg'd with idolatry, and proven guilty : a sermon (Glasgow : Printed for, and sold by George Paton, in Linlithgow, 1742., 1742), by James Fraser and Thomas F. Torrance Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward the vindication of the second commandment by Edm. Gurnay ... (London : Printed by E.M. for J. Rothwell ..., 1661), by Edmund Gurnay (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of idolatry (Oxford [i.e. London] : Printed by Henry Hall ..., 1646), by Henry Hammond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Charlewood, dwelling in Barbican, An. 1587), by John Ryckes, Adrian Savorine, Anthony Munday, and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love. ([Imprynted at London : In the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde, The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC. [and] xxv. [1525] The vij. daye of October]), by John Ryckes and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Several conferences between a Romish priest, a fanatick chaplain, and a divine of the Church of England concerning the idolatry of the Church of Rome, being a full answer to the late dialogues of T.G. (London : Printed by M.W. for H. Mortlock ..., 1679), by Edward Stillingfleet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An arrovv against idolatrie Taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts. By H.A. ([Amsterdam : Successors of G. Thorp], Printed. 1624), by Henry Ainsworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Short information, but agreeable unto Scripture: of idol-images. ([London? : S.n.], M.D.C.XX. [1620]), by Abraham Scultetus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A rod discovered, found, and set forth to whip the idolaters till they leave off their idolatry (which yet remains in the rulers of England, their ministers, and the people who follow thier wayes) which doth consist in the houses of high places, falsly called churches; the two universities, Cambridge and Oxford, (and their ministers, which are made by man, and not of God) and their ministers maintenance (not the ministers of Christs) which is portions of lands, tythes, offrings, oblations, obventions, and great houses for a certain dwelling place on the earth, and forms of oathes, all which is the fruit of idolaters, and the abomination of the heathen. So likewise here is described the true magistrate and his work; and the way (for he who is not) to become such a one; and likewise, the way for all people to come out of their idolatry, vo worship the true God in spirit and truth. Written by me Henry Clark. Unto which is prefixed the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Laodiceans. (London : printed for the author, the sixth month, in the year 1657), by Henry Clark (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Altar-worship, or Bowing to the communion table considered as to the novelty vanity iniquity malignity charged upon it. In an antithesis to the determination of Dr. Eleazar Duncon, lately translated, and sent into the world in a Romish dress, with a cross in the front and fine. By Z. Crofton Presbyter, but proved enemy to all fanaticks. (London : printed for J.R. at the Fountain in Goldsmiths-Row in Cheapside, 1661), by Zachary Crofton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ymage of love (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Charlewood, dwelling in Barbican, An. 1587), by John Ryckes, Adrian Savorine, Anthony Munday, and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ymage of love. ([Imprynted at London : In the Flete strete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde, The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC. [and] xxv. [1525] The vij. daye of October]), by John Ryckes and John Gough (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revelation to the monk of Evesham abbey in the year of Our Lord eleven hundred ninety-six, concerning the places of purgatory and paradise (J. McBride, 1909), by Valerian pseud. of Harold and Zoë Paget Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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