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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Abraham is shown with knife in hand about to sacrifice Isaac, who is bound and resting atop a pile of wood on a stone altar. A ram and a pot with fire are nearby, and an angel flies overhead. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This scene of Christian worship shows a baptism, a preacher in a pulpit before the kneeling congregation, and the Eucharist being observed -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With his tankard on the table nearby the drunken Noah sleeps. His sons Shem and Japheth hide their eyes from his nakedness and attempt to cover him, while Ham looks upon and points to Noah. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With his wife Sarah standing inside the house nearby, Abraham kneels to welcome three strangers to his home. Birds fly over head. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Humans are shown laboring with scaffolding to build a large tower into the heavens. Tower of Babel. Also used to illustrate the story of Jonathan rebuilding Jerusalem in 1 Macc 10. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title-page woodcut features caricatures of six Roman Catholics: Johann Eck (with fool's cap), Girolamo Aleandro (as lion), Augustin von Alveld (as donkey), Dam (as pig), Thomas Murner (as cat) and Hieronymus Emser (as goat) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a horn of oil the prophet Samuel anoints young David to become Israel’s next king (1 Samuel 16). One of David’s attributes, the harp, rests on the ground beside him. The woodcut serves as a printer’s device for Samuel Selfisch (or, Seelfisch) of Wittenberg or of Gabriel Schnellboltz (cf. W.L... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Vincenzo Vaugris (Venice) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20