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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The prophet Amos is shown reading from a book to a seated assembly that seems stricken with remorse. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel presents a book to John, who kneels before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus teaches his disciples about prayer in the foreground, his lesson is acted out in the background: the Pharisee kneels in prayer in the Temple (a stone tablet is barely visible) and the tax collector stands outside, hat in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples the Parable of the Sower -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Good Samaritan leads the wounded man into Jericho on his donkey. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the reconciliation of an apostate, schismatic or heretic. The bishop sits outside the church. The heretic kneels before him, while the bishop asks him a series of questions, such as “Do you believe in the twelve articles of the faith?” To these the heretic must reply,... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates one part of the rite of absolution for a priest who had been excommunicated. The one to be absolved kneels before the bishop who is seated outside of the church. The bishop holds a switch in his hand with which he beats the shoulders of the one to be absolved, while a... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the rite of solemn excommunication. The bishop sits surrounded by twelve priests in a public place, each with a lit candle in his hand. The bishop then pronounces the anathema against the one to be excommunicated, after which all strike out their candles against the g... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the reception of a travelling legate by the bishop of a locality -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. When a priest engages in serious wrong-doing, he may be suspended by the bishop. After doing the prescibed penance, the priest undergoes a rite of reconciliation. Here the bishop is laying his hand on t... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. This engraving illustrates the rite of degradation. The bishop who is being degraded, kneels before the presiding bishop, who announces to all present the cause of his fellow bishop being removed from off... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. The bishop lays his hand on the head of a priest as he prays for him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of two illustrating the proceedings at a diocesan synod. The bishop sits among the priests of the diocese, as the archdeacon stands in a pulpit and reads the decrees of the Council of Trent and the profession of faith. All who are present also make the profession of ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the proceedings at a diocesan synod. The bishop preaches to all those present at the synod, admonishing and exhorting them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the visit of a bishop to a parish church. While visiting, he gives the local congregation a solemn blessing and, during the liturgy, tells them the reasons why he has come to see them (e.g., to ascertain whether or not the local church is being well governed, to perfor... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the sixth seal is opened, there is an earthquake, the sun is darkened, and the moon turns red, and stars fall from heaven. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Surrounded by seven angels blowing on trumpets, God stands behind the altar and with him is another angel with a golden censor in hand. The sun and moon and clouds are shown, a figure on a boat in a rough sea, and another angel below the altar calling out "Woe." -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An altar is shown surrounded by angels, and beneath it are the (souls of the) martyrs. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the third of four engravings illustrating the blessing of several holy oils on Holy Thursday. A procession of priests, deacons and subdeacons approaches the bishop with vessels containing the Chrism and oil of Catechumens -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the last of four engravings illustrating the blessing of several holy oils on Holy Thursday. With two vessels of blessed oil resting on the altar, the bishop begins to sing the preface of the Mass -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the second of four engravings illustrating the blessing of several holy oils on Holy Thursday. The archdeacon presents a vessel containing oil to the bishop for his blessing -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the first of four engravings illustrating the blessing of several holy oils on Holy Thursday. The bishop sits in the midst of many clerical dignitaries, priests, deacons and subdeacons and prepares to begin the sacrifice of the Mass -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating the ninth commandment, these scenes are taken from the story of Jacob cheating his father-in-law Laban out of his livestock -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A nativity scene with the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Nativity. Note the date 1523. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the nativity in Bethlehem. Note the date 1523 and the artist's monogram "VS" -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the nativity with cherubs attending to the newborn Christ child. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The scene of the nativity show the holy family, as the shepherds are in the field and receive the news of Jesus' birth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This familiar scene of the birth of Jesus shows the shepherds hastening to the manger scene -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This scene of the nativity features the holy family with the shepherds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus stands surrounded by his disciples, the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, kneels before him with her request that he elevate her sons above the others -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The molten sea was supported on twelve oxen and made of bronze -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seven-branched lampstand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Thomas was martyred with a spear, according to some Christian tradition; the electoral and ducal arms of Saxony hang on the wall -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Philip is shown here being martyred by crucifixion -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Apostle Matthew is martyred by decapitation -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Jude (Thaddaeus) is martyred in this image by being clubbed to death -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Martyrdom of the Apostle James (the Less) happened by his being thrown from a parapet, according to some tradition, and then being beaten with a fuller's club -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle James (the Greater) was martyred by being beheaded -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle Peter was crucified upside-down -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From the Hortulus animae or Lustgarten der Seelen and based on the sketches of Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), this scene depicts the be-heading of Matthias by guillotine. According to Acts 1:15-26, he was chosen by the casting of lots to replace the Apostle Judas, who had committed suicide... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Luther Rose served as the reformer's signet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Last Supper or Eucharist, instituted by Jesus Christ as he and his disciples eat the Passover meal. A basin and flagon are on the floor in the foreground; two windows flank the head of Jesus. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is shown here with his twelve disciples at the last supper -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus shares the Passover supper with his disciples. The head of John is laid on Jesus' chest; Judas with the money bag sits across the table -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This depiction of the last judgment adorned the title-page of Otto Brunfels' (1488-1534) work on the "Christian Regimen"." He had been a Carthusian monk and later a physician in Bern -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angels and armies of God defeat the armies of the beast in the heavens, and the beast is thrown into the lake of fire. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The lamb is shown with a banner in the sky, surrounded by angels playing on harps, and four beasts with wings: lion, human figure, eagle, and ox. A book is opened and the cities of the earth are being destroyed. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In this initial letter "E" Solomon sits on his throne with scepter in hand and judges the competing claims of two women for the one child before him; a guard with pike in hand stands nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A two-dimentional diagram of the Jerusalem Temple. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This diagram of the Jerusalem Temple draws on Ezekiel 40-42 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Jeroboam and attendants stand over the bed of his son Abijah, and Jeroboam's wife is shown in disguise entering the door with a basket. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Holy Spirit appears as a dove above the assembled disciples Mary, and flames of fire appear over their heads -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As one angel puts the sickle to the grain to reap it, another harvests grapes, and another angel works the winepress. God is in the clouds above with sickle 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: The great harlot of Revelation 17 is shown here and is presented with a caption identifying her with the Pope -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The grate that fits inside the altar. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is shown as the Good Shepherd, and alongside this is another shepherd, a stranger to the flock, who is unrecognized by the second flock -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Jesus appears as the 'Good Shepherd' -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God gives the tablets of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai -
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: The four horsemen of Revelation (Rev. 6:1-8; the first four seals), with sword, bow and arrow, scales, and pitchfork. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Noah's Ark floats above the waters, and a dove with olive branch flies overhead. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ is bound to a pillar and beaten by three guards -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Israelites eat the Passover meal while standing around a table with staffs in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are visible in the fiery furnace, while the two soldiers who placed them there are consumed with fire, and two men (Nebuchadnezzar and an advisor) stand by discussing what they see. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the victorious Christ appears in the heavens, angels separate the saved from the lost, and the latter are hurried into the gaping mouth of Hell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about the coming of the Son of Man and the final judgment -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel flies overhead blowing a trumpet, and below him is the opening to the abyss with smoke billowing out; several locusts/scorpions are set around it and the bodies of humans lie around it as well. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The fifth angel blows a trumpet, as smoke from the shaft of the bottomless pit rises. There is a fallen star, locusts with crowns, human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion tails. The angel of the bottomless pit appears in the smoke, and men lie dead around the mouth of the pit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The fifth seal (Rev. 6:9-11). Men and women are the martyrs below the altar, over which an angel stands. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus feeds the 5,000 by multiflying the loaves and fishes -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus feeds the 5,000 and teaches his disciples its significance -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Israel marches around the city of Jericho, led by the Ark of the Covenant, the city walls begin to collapse -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This initial letter A shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with the serpent and the tree of knowledge. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A centurion of Capernaum asks that Jesus heal his servant -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An initial letter N shows Israelite spies returning from their investigation of Canaan bearing on a large pole between them a giant cluster of grapes. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Matthew sits at a writing desk, as an angel hovers nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mark sits at his writing desk, a lion at his feet and a book before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Evangelist Luke, with halo overhead and his attribute the ox to the left, sits at his writing desk and writes his gospel account. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Luke sits at a writing desk with a fireplace nearby, a bull at his feet, and a book before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John sits with pen in hand and a book before him, an eagle stands nearby and a vision of the Madonna and child appears before him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Angels empty the bowls of God's wrath on the earth, as the sun shines above and the beast (with the triple tiara) emits frogs from his mouth below. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Moses and Israel stand safely on the shore, Pharaoh's army is drowned in the Red Sea. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The priests Nadab and Abihu are destroyed by fire from God. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Antiochus burns Jerusalem -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Babylon is consumed by flames and merchants wail, two angels fly overhead. Open book. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The city of Babylon burns, as one angel throws a millstone into the sea and another rejoices in midair. Merchants standing nearby are griefstricken. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Deposition. Jesus Christ is laid in a casket by a group of men and women outside the burial cave. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the twelfth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop, seated on a throne before the doors of the church, gives a brief sermon to the assistant priests and the people gathered there -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eleventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and the other priests march in procession. The bishop is under a canopy carrying the stone containing relics under a cloth. This stone will eventually be set into the altar and will co... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the new altar with blessed water and holy oil. He makes the sign of the cross with the oil in the middle of the altar and in each of the four corners corresponding to the ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the new altar by sprinkling it with holy water taken from an aspersorium using a hyssop branch as an aspergillum -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop first circles the new church on the outside, sprinkling holy water as he goes -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the ninth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop goes around the interior of the church blessing it with holy water which he takes from the aspersorium with a branch of hyssop that he uses as an aspergillum -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Once again, the bishop sanctifies the altar by making the sign of the cross on it with holy oil in several places, including the top and foundation of the altar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the thirteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. A hole has been cut in the new altar into which the altar stone, containing relics of several saints, will be placed. The bishop consecrates the angles of the depression with holy oil and then ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the altar with incense, swinging the censer in the sign of the cross over its middle and four corners -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop stands before a table on which stand vessels filled with salt, ashes and water and blesses them