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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The woman's baby is saved from the beast upon his birth and the dragon is defeated by angels
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    Description: The events of trumpets five through seven: the opening of the abyss and the attack of an army of lion-like figures with soldiers, along with angels with swords
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    Description: The events of the first four trumpets: destruction of ships, earth, and the falling of Wormwood
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    Description: The crucifixion of Jesus dominates this representation of the Christian Trinity
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    Description: A rendering of the Trinity
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    Description: This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus j...
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    Description: God the Father holds the dead body of Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit overhead in the form of a dove
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    Description: The woman, the child, and the dragon. The child is snatched away by angels to God in heaven, while Michael and the angels battle the there. The woman wears a crown and is given eagles' wings, and the earth swallows up the river poured out of dragon's mouth.
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    Description: The Electoral coat of arms of Saxony appears at the base of this representation of the Christian Trinity
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    Description: The sixth angel blows a trumpet, and a third of humankind is slaughtered. There is a golden altar before God, and below it are breastplated riders on horses with lions' heads.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As God appears behind an altar with an angel on either side (one with a trumpet), there appears below four horsemen and several angels slaying humans.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Two depictions of the sun and a sundial. In response to Hezekiah's prayer for healing, God gives a sign: the shadow cast by the sun moves back.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The seventh seal. Angels with trumpets are at the altar before God. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, hail, and fire afflict the earth, and ships are destroyed.
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    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...
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    Description: As the prophet Joel sits before his desk with a book open before him, the sun moon,stars even God appear before him
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    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."
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    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: God gives the tablets of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai
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    Description: Cain uses a bone club to murder Abel, and in the background Abel successfully offers a sacrifice to God, while Cain stands by in dismay.
  • 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...
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    Description: In the background Amos tends a flock of sheep, but in the foreground he kneels before a vision of God.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the mother of Jesus
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove
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    Description: An angel sounds the sixth trumpet causing the attack of an army of angels and lion-like horses
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    Description: Upon the opening of the seventh seal, the angels are given seven trumpets and a golden censor is poured our upon the earth causing great earthquakes and much destruction
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With God looking on from the clouds above, Job's prosperity is restored: flocks of sheep and herds of camels; his brothers and sisters return and he has sons and daughters.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: An image of God as the tetragramaton surrounded by light gives authorization to this printer's device
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    Description: This ornamental title-page border includes a Hebrew inscription at the head and a Latin one below, which reads "VERBUM DEI MANET IN AETERNU[M]" ("The word of God endures forever")
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    Description: This allegorical rendering shows the city of Nuremberg personified as a woman (under "Res Pvb."), and on either side of her is Justice (with sword and scale) and Liberality (manna is falling from heaven). In the background is a profile of the city. This woodcut is taken from a 1564 printing of th...
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    Description: God instructs Moses as the animals come to the ark two by two
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    Description: A rendering of the Roman god Neptune.
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    Description: Moses meets God on Mt. Sinai
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    Description: With Israel in the background near their tents, Moses is shown before the luminous face of God, emerging from clouds, lightening, and fire on Mount Sinai.
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    Description: On the right, God gives two stone tablets to Moses from a burning bush,on the left, Moses presents the tablets to the people of Israel.
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    Description: A rendering of the Roman god Mercury (Greek Hermes).
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    Description: A historiated title-page border with the Roman god Mercury
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    Description: A rendering of King David playing the harp. God is rendered in the upper left-hand corner in the clouds
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    Description: The vision of worship of God in heaven. God's throne is surrounded by angels, elders, seven torches, and four creatures full of eyes and with six wings.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: John's vision of God on the heavenly throne, surrounded by angels and the 24 elders, with crowns, lamps, and harps. On the sea of glass are the four beasts (lion, ox, human, eagle).
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God is confronted by Satan, while Job's wife stands before her naked afflicted husband
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    Description: Jesus teaches the crowds from his place on a hill
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    Description: Jesus teaches his disciples, as God looks on from the clouds
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    Description: Jeremiah sees above him in the clouds God, on the left is the branch of an almond tree, and on the right is a boiling pot.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jeremiah's call and commission. He kneels and looks to God in the clouds, seeing a boiling pot on the one side and the branch of an almond tree on the other
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    Description: Jacob is asleep, with his head on a stone, and three angels climb a ladder from his side to God in the clouds of heaven.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jacob's ladder. Jacob is asleep on the ground, from which a ladder ascends to the figure of God in the clouds. One angel is ascending the ladder, while another is descending.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The story of the patriarch Jacob’s dream of a ladder (or more likely, a stairway) from earth to heaven (Genesis 28) forms the basis for this illustration, perhaps by Cranach. It is one of several full-page woodcuts by the famous artist that were prepared for Luther’s translation of the Old Testam...
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    Description: Jacob wrestles with God on the bank of the Jabbock River
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    Description: Jacob wrestles with God
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    Description: The prophet Isaiah stands on a hill overlooking the Jerusalem Temple and sees a vision of God inthe clouds: God is seated on a throne with the seraphim around him.