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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An ornamental title-page border frames St. Francis receiving the stigmata with another figure--possibly Brother Leo--looking on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: When the Philistine soldiers defeat Israel, King Saul and his armor-bearer fall on their swords and die. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king kneels before the presiding bishop. One of the priest-assistants brings the king’s sword from the altar and gives it to the bishop, who then presents it to the king -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A flaming sword is featured in the printer's device of Jean Gerard, a printer in Geneva -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The table with the Bread of the Presence -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot, wearing alb and chasuble, kneels before the presiding bishop who lays his hands on the abbot’s head to bless him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image illustrates a Lutheran Church service, in which the preacher addresses his congregation. An infant is being baptized in a font on one side and the Eucharist being distributed on the other -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, or his son, Hans Cranach -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Gedaliah, appointed governor of Judah by the Babylonian king, is slain with his Jewish associates and Babylonian soldiers by Ishmael and his company. All are depicted in armor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches the crowds on the shore from a boat, and in the background is another boat where Jesus is seated and instructs men as they pull in their nets -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In Luke 14, Jesus visits the home of a Pharisee and delivers instruction about humility in the selection of banquet seating -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Nicodemus approaches Jesus at night, while others are asleep on a table nearby, and the content of Jesus' remarks to Nicodemus are portrayed in a baptismal (effusion) scene in the background, which includes the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon Melanchthon's motto is from Rom 8:31 and reads, "Si deus pro nobis quis contra nos?" ("If God is for us, who is against us?"). -
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 wise woman of Tekoah approaches David with her request. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Satan tempts Jesus at the end of Jesus' fast in the wilderness -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: David defeated the soldiers of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, and ruined his chariots and hamstrung his horses. Clubs, pikes, shields. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a man sows seed in a field in the background, Jesus teaches his disciples the Parable of the Sower -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus is shown teaching his disciples the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, scenes from the parable fill the surrounding space -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant, the king forgives his servant's debt (left), but the servant does not forgive his fellow servant's plea for leniency (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An official of Capernaum asks Jesus to come heal his son who was near death -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus stands in the foreground teaching the parable of the wedding banquet, in the background the army of the king assaults the city of those who ignored the royal banquet invitation -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus and their offering in the Temple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus heals a paralytic and pronounces his sins forgiven, teachers of the law gather and condemn him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples to remove the beam from their own eyes before attempting to remove the speck in another's -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This portrait of Martin Luther is framed by four scenes illustrating the story of human sin and redemption -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: While Jesus dines in the home of a Pharisee, a sinful woman came and anointed Jesus' head with oil -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mary, the future mother of Jesus, visits her pregnant kinswoman, Elizabeth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border shows the symbols for the four Gospels in the corners, the Apostles Peter and Paul at the top and bottom, and the four "Great Western Fathers" of the church along the edges: Pope Gregory I, Cardinal Jerome, Bishop Ambrose, and Bishop Augustine -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This playful title-border features putti and a variety of animals, birds, and musical instruments -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This playful title-page border is a copy of that done by the monogrammist "H' (see Johannes Luther, Titeleinfassungen, 68 and 68c) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Pharisees condemn Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners, because he was found dining at the house of Matthew, the tax collector -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus meets the funeral procession coming out of the city of Nain and raises from the dead the widow of Nain's son -
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: In Jesus' parable of the great banquet, one of those invited declines, since he has just bought five yoke of oxen -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus teaching his disciples, as the Pharisees convene in the background (left), introduces Jesus' teaching on paying taxes to Caesar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a city and the soldiers and wagons of Philistia in the background, the young David swings his sling with a stone toward Goliath, who stands with sword and lance and magnificent armor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's letter to the Galatians, this engraving shows the apostle with his attribute the sword (here, two swords) passing along a letter to a messenger (note his equipment for his journey: hat, sword, and shoes). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mark the Evangelist sits at a writing table composing his gospel account, as the Holy Spirit appears outside the window in the form of a dove. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Given its placement in this New Testament, the Apostle Paul is shown writing a letter to Timothy. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's correspondence with the Corinthian church, here the Apostle Paul receives (or sends?) a letter from a richly dressed emissary of the church. The apostle has his typical attribute, the sword, and the church's messenger, hat in hand, passes along to Paul a sealed envelope. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits in a pastoral setting with book in hand and his attribute, the eagle, nearby, as he looks upward at a vision of Jesus in the clouds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Nicolaus Diuitus, a Parisian printer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Hermann V, von Wied (d.1552) adorned the title-page of a history recounting his activities as the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne and an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V adorned the title-page of the account of the surrender of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, to him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This wood-engraving of the siege of a city, complete with cannons and assault ladders, adorned the title page of Ein vermanlied, a pro-Lutheran war song from the time of the Schmalkald War (1546-1547) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546) shows the mature reformer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Wolfgang Köpfel (d. 1554?) shows the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above two serpents grasping a stone block, perhaps serving as the headstone (= cornerstone) of a building, and so serving as a wordplay on the printer’s name (Kopf = head) -
Medallion Portraits of Luther, the Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony, and Melanchthon
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Medallion portraits of Martin Luther, Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony and Philipp Melanchthon. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion portrain of Martin Luther (1483-1546) was printed in the year of the reformer's death -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion portrait of Luther is marked by the date of the reformer's death -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Luther Rose served as the reformer's signet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (1503-1554). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coats of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (left) and Landgrave Philip of Hesse (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Holy Spirit descends on Jesus' followers at Pentecost -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus stands before his disicples and teaches them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Matthew 4 reports that Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus stands and teaches the disciples, while in the background a group of men huddle together as the devil approaches them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the disciples gather around the mount of ascension, Jesus goes up into the clouds and only his footprints are left. This engraving was offered as an illustration of Mark 16 (v. 19) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus stands before the disciples and teaches them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus tells two disciples the Parable of the Sower; in the background is a city and a plowed field with the devil passing through it scattering weed seed -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating a sermon on John 20, this woodcut shows the resurrected Jesus with his disciples and Thomas placing his hand in the wound in Jesus’ side (cf. vv. 26-29). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the resurrected Jesus appears to the eleven in Jerusalem. In the background he first appears to the disciples, and then in the foreground he sits at table to eat -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In this woodcut the resurrected Jesus walks between two of his disciples on their way to the village of Emmaus -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Three women come to the tomb with their jars of ointment to anoint the body of Jesus for burial, only to find the stone at the door of the tomb rolled away and an angel inside. This woodcut illustrates Luther’s sermon on Mark 16, which identifies the three women as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus and a Jewish cleric stand in the Temple, on opposite sides of two men about to stone a woman taken in adultery -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus and three disciples speak with the child, loaves and fish in hand, in the background Jesus' disciples distribute food to the crowds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In this depiction of an exorcism by Jesus, Satan departs the man in a vapor from his mouth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As his disciples stand nearby, Jesus stands before the Canaanite woman (from the region of Tyre and Sidon) who beseeches him to exorcize the demon that possess her daughter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is tempted by the devil (a hairy figure with horns, a tail, and breasts) in the wilderness. In the foreground the devil presents Jesus with a loaf of bread (similarly-shaped stones are scattered on the ground nearby), and in the background there are fields and a city, with Jesus, the tempte... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about the signs that will precede the End and notes its doom for nursing mothers (left) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus listens to a ruler's request that he raise the man's daughter from the dead (left), and then goes in response. Along the way a woman approaches him from behind, touches his garment, and is healed of her bleeding (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is shown delivering the Sermon on the Mount -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: While Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, three of the disciples slumber -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This simple title-border includes the double-eagle of the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor the place of publication (Wittenberg) is fictitious (it was in fact published in Strasbourg by Matthias Schuerer's heirs) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This representation of a monk in conversation with a knight was printed on the title-page of Luther's lettr to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the new General of the Teutonic Knights, in which he argues against celibacy being required of members of military orders -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in full form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME ("Do not become proud but stand in awe." Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
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: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). portal dated 1521 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Andreas Wechel (d. 1581) features Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology that rose into the heavens to become a constellation of stars -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Juan de Cánova (fl. 1555-1568) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The initial letter V shows Moses with the tablets of the law. He looks up at a serpent lifted on a wooden cross in the wilderness. Some Israelites are lying on the ground striken with snake bites, as others look up prayerfully at the serpent. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Oudin Petit (d. 1572) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's Device of Jean Crespin (d. 1572) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The initial letter V shows the high priest followed by other priests, with a curtain in the background, as he comes before a table with the showbread/bread of the presence and the tablets of the law. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In a workshop with large table and furnace two craftsmen, Bezalel and Oholiab, fashion the bowls and other utensils to be used in the Israelite Temple/tabernacle cult with hammer and anvil. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Johannes Crato (d. 1578) shows Samuel anointing David with oil from a ram's horn, as David kneels in prayer before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Henri Estienne (1531-1598) 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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Guillaume Cavellat (d. 1576 or 7) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here, the tabernacle is uncovered to show its furnishings -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A two-dimentional diagram of the Jerusalem Temple. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A two-dimensional diagram of Solomon's Temple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This representation of the tabernacle includes a schematic with labels -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Job, naked and covered with sores, sits before his wife. His possessions burn in the background, and the two men (left) who are departing may be messengers who had brought him news of the disasters befalling him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device for Denys Roce (fl. 1490-1517) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This miniature version of the seven-headed Luther imitates that used in 1529 by J. Cochlaeus in his attacks on the reformer