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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The wise woman of Tekoah approaches David with her request.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Taken from the printing of an early and very popular sermon by Luther on indulgences and grace, this woodcut shows Jesus being taken down from the cross by Mary the mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Apostle John. This illustration is reminiscent of the “Man of Sorrows” image shown lat...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Saul kneels with scepter in hand, Samuel anoints him. Attendants stand nearby, one with a crown. A castle appears in the background.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: For this image: The text around the woodcut is taken from Galatians 6:14. “Far be it from me that I should boast, except in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A woman with a crown on he head sits at a desk on which there is an open book. Vessels are on the shelf nearby
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: King Xerxes is seated at the banquet table with his retinue
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A king (Solomon?) sits between two women, who argue their cases
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: King Solomon sits on his throne, scepter in hand
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A crowned woman, with a flag in one handa cup in the other, rides a four-headed (lion, eagle, bull,man) beast. Each foot of the beast corresponds to a head
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: From the 'Zürich Bible' and based on the sketches of Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497/98-1543), this illustration of the creation story in Genesis 2 shows Eve rising in the posture of prayer from the side of the sleeping Adam, as God stands alongside giving the sign of blessing. Several of the ani...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As the old Pharaoh, who knew and favored Joseph is laid by his attendants in the tomb, a new Pharaoh with crown and scepter receives his subjects from a balcony.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Joseph is led away to prison by two men as Potiphar, with sword and crown, and his wife stand looking on.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A winged woman stands on the moon in the posture of prayer, with a crown of twelve stars on her hand. Above her two angels carry a baby on a cloth stretched between them. Above all is visible God and the ark in the clouds. A beast with seven heads, attacked by angels with swords and spears, conf...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: John's vision of the four horsemen: one with a crown and bow and arrow, another with a sword, another with scales, and the last as a skeleton with pitchfork. Human forms are slain before them.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Solomon sits on his throne, scepter in hand and an advisor nearby, a messenger kneels before him with a letter.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Bathsheba pleads with the aged King David on behalf of her son Solomon.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of King David playing the harp. God is rendered in the upper left-hand corner in the clouds
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of David and Goliath
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe...