📚 Relics

Bodies and fragments as economy: the translation of saints, the authentication trade, and the reformers’ mockery.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject relics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Holy Place	Henry Lincoln	1991	8
	Traité des reliques	Jean Calvin	1854	6
	Lincoln collector	Carl Sandburg	1949	6
	New Salem	Illinois. Dept. of Public Works and Buildings.	1933	5
	'Lost from Her Majesties back'	Janet Arnold	1980	4
	The DNA of God?	Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes	1998	4
	A list of the contents of the drawers in my study, and in two other rooms	James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps	1870	3
	Catalogue of manuscripts and relics in Washington's head-quarters, Newburgh, N.Y	Edward Manning Ruttenber	1879	3
	The wonders of the heart of St. Teresa of Jesus	Simon des Saints Joseph et Thérèse, tertiaire des carmes déchaux prêtre	1882	3
	The Holy Roman curiosity shop	B. M.	1892	3
	The story of the Washington coachee and of the Powel coach which is now at Mount Vernon	Mary Stevens Beall	1908	3
	Historical relics of George Washington	Washington, William Lanier	1917	3
	The reliquary	Jocelyn Rhys	1930	3
	Lincoln's New Salem	Benjamin Platt Thomas	1934	3
	The story of the Lincoln shingle	Bruce E. Wheeler	1949	3
	Des reliques et de leur bon usage	Patrice Boussel	1971	3
	Furta sacra	Patrick J. Geary	1978	3
	Le trésor sacré de la cathédrale d'Arras	E. van Drival	1860	2
	Les reliques et les images légendaires	P. Saintyves	1912	2
	Rư̄ang phra khīeo kǣo	Chulalongkorn King of Siam	1926	2
	Acquisition of Certain Relics of Christopher Columbus	United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library	1939	2
	Lincoln collector	Carl Sandburg	1950	2
	Il miracolo di S. Gennaro	Giovanni Battista Alfano	1950	2
	The relics of Saint Cuthbert	C. F. Battiscombe	1956	2
	Avertissement contre l'astrologie	Jean Calvin	1962	2
	Relics	Joan Carroll Cruz	1984	2
	Odisea del ancla de Colón	Carlos Dobal	1991	2
	Heilige und Reliquien	Arnold Angenendt	1994	2
	The Chronicle of Burma	Asha Das	1994	2
	The Ark, the Shroud, and Mary	Philip Gardiner	2007	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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