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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The coat of arms for Bishop Sidonius (Michael Helding, d. 1561) of Merseburg (1550-1561).
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Abraham holds a sword overhead, about to slay his son Isaac, when an angel intervenes. To the side is a ram, horns entangled in a thicket, and a pot of coals for the sacrifice. This is one of several full-page woodcuts, perhaps prepared by Lucas Cranach for Luther’s translation of the Old Testament.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Solomon appears at table with his attendants, when two women approach, each claiming custody of the baby. Solomon's servant stands with drawn sword to divide the child between the two women
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The victorious and resurrected Christ appears over the slumbering guards
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus' disciples are sleeping on the night he was betrayed. Peter is asleep on the left, with his sword visible, and in the upper left is a cup in the sky.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: In this historiated title-page border, David has slain Goliath with a sling and prepares to decapitate him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Holofernes decapitated body lies in bed in a tent, Judith stands nearby with a sword in her hand, as she extends Holofernes' head to her maidservent
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border from the workshop of Lucas Cranach, the Elder, depicting the story of John the Baptist's martyrdom on the order of Herod Antipas
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: In the printer’s device of Hans Lufft (1495-1584), two hands grasp a sword with a heart on its tip, and two serpents wrap themselves around the sword
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Standing outside a tent with Holofernes' sword in hand, Judith places the head of the Assyrian general into the bag held by her maidservant.