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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This ornate title-page border adorns a Lutheran hymnal and illustrates the technique of using four separate panels for the composition. In his rhurry, the printer placed the bottom panel upside-down and omitted an 'x' in the date of publication (1514 instead of 1524) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The crucifixion of Jesus dominates this representation of the Christian Trinity -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches the crowds from his place on a hill -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Above the circle of creation with its concentric rings of angels, God sits enthroned. At the center is the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God is confronted by Satan, while Job's wife stands before her naked afflicted husband -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The prophet Elijah stands by as the fire of God comes down from heaven and consumes a Samarian captain and his fifty men. The King of Samaria watches from his sickbed -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border Title border by Jörg Breu, the Elder (ca. 1480-1537) -
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 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: 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: God gives the tablets of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai -
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 -
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: 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: 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: 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: God in the form of a king speaks the world into being -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Greek god Hercules from the rear. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A historiated title-page border with the Roman god Mercury -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Roman god Mercury (Greek Hermes). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Roman god Neptune. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Greek god Hercules with his characteristic lion hood and musculature. -
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: 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. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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: 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. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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: As God looks on from the clouds, Moses with staff in hand walks with Aaron toward the Israelites to take a census of them. Their tents are in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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: 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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Creation of Eve. God kneels at the foot of Adam and makes the sign of blessing as he draws Eve from Adam's side. The vegetation of the Garden of Eden, and the sun, moon, and stars are set in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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. -
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: The Creator God, making a sign of blessing with his right hand and his robes flowing, stands before the orb of creation with its sun, moon, stars, and terrain visible. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is baptised by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
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: This intricate title-page border has God at the head, making the sign of blessing, and features two portraits, as well as the Electoral arms of Saxony (right) and the Easter lamb (left). The initials of the printer 'A R' (Andreas Rauscher) are set on both side panels -
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: As Adam sleeps, God removes Eve from his side -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Creator God stands over the orb of creation, signaling blessing with one hand as the other rests on the globe. Within the orb are sun, moon, stars, a city, a human,an animal -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God creates Eve from the side of the sleeping Adam in the Garden of Eden -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses receives the tablets of the law from God on Mount Sinai, as the Israelites dance before the golden calf -
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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In this title-page woodcut, God extends a crown over the head of Jacob, thus indicating his selection of Jacob over his twin brother Esau. The coat of arms for the Holy Roman Emperor is set in the top left corner. The artist/engraver of the woodcut is Daniel Hopfer (ca.1470-1536), who was active... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King David raises his hands to heaven in adoration as a harp lies beside him on the ground. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Israelites receive the ten commandments. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA
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