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- ↑ Sandra Sider (1997). Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-7735-1550-5.
- ↑ "The picture bible of Ludwig Denig". Aug 14, 2015. Retrieved Apr 11, 2019.
- ↑ Denig, Ludwig (Apr 11, 1990). "The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig: A Pennsylvania German Emblem Book". Hudson Hills Press in association with the Museum of American Folk Art and the Pennsylvania German Society. Retrieved Apr 11, 2019.
- ↑ Delamaire, Marie-Stéphanie & Joan Irving, "The Denig Manuscript Project: Art Making in the Early American Borderlands" Winterthur website, n.d.; accessed April 6, 2023
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