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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, with his hands still bound within a long linen cloth, kneels before the presiding bishop. The latter offers the book of the Gospels (formerly on the back of the one being consecrat... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Diagram of area of the Temple atrium (see Ezekiel 40-42) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus' disciples distribute loaves of bread to the crowd of 4,000, while seven loaves of bread rest in the foreground -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This striking image from a Roman Catholic catechism features a gambling scene in the foreground and an execution by stoning in the background -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Evangelist Matthew writes his gospel account, receiving inspiratiion from the angel that appears outside his window. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Canaanite woman in the region of Tyre and Sidon kneels before Jesus, requesting that he heal her daughter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Attached to the folio printing of Gaguin’s work on the history of France is the printer’s device of Thielman Kerver (d. 1522). As was often the case, this device incorporates mythological elements (the two unicorns), elaborate flora (an oak tree occupies the central space), and a family crest -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This is the portrait of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The three wise men greet the newborn Christ child in Bethlehem. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Andreas Cratander (d. 1540) shows Occasio, the goddess of chance, against an Alpine landscape, standing on an orb and with a razor lifted high. By monogrammist H.F. (= Hans Franck [d.1522]?) -
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 the two embrace and other soldiers look on, Joab stabs Amasa with a dagger. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the seventh in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, with his head and hands wrapped in two long linen cloths is offered the bishop’s crozier or staff by the presiding bishop. A priest continues to hold the book of the Gospels open... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Jesus commissions the Twelve to go out to preach and heal -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus heals the paralytic, pronouncing his sins forgiven, a group of Jewish scribes are shown convening (lower right) to criticize him of blasphemy -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: When asked about greatness in the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus called a child to stand among the disciples -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. Wearing a royal cloak, the king kneels before the presiding bishop, who anoints his hands with the oil of catechumens as the auxiliary bishops look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A title page for the book, Elementarius Dialecticed, with a decorative border -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus blesses the children -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This representation of the sacrament of confession appeared on the title-page of a work by the former Dominican preacher, Jakob Strauss, on true contrition and the Catholic practice of confession (which Strauss considered a work of the devil) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Chrestien Wechel (1495-1554), father of printer Andreas Wechel, 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: Jesus teaches his disciples about the coming of the Son of Man and the final judgment -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Antonio Blado (1490-1567) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Aurelius Pincius of Venice -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Gideon divided his troops into three companies and surrounded the Midianites; upon their shout, the Midianites attacked one another in confusion and so were routed by Israel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: At Joshua's command, the Israelites hang the Amorite kings who had attacked Gibeon -
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: The Apostle Paul sits at a desk, sword in his lap, and a woman (Phoebe) stands before him. From the Dietenberger Bible, the German trans-lation issued by Johann Dietenberger (d. 1534) as a Roman Catholic Response to Luther’s translation of the Scriptures, also issued in 1534. This woodcut is pro... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Two armies engaged in battle. -
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 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 whore of Babylon rides a beast with seven heads and ten horns and carries a golden cup. A king stands receptively before them, and a bald man (a monk?) and a bonneted woman kneel before them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Seven angels pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God, and humans are shown suffering afflictions from this. Below, a beast spews out spirits like frogs toward a king and another royal figure. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the clouds is the Son of Man with a sickle, speaking with one angel as another hovers below. On the earth one angel harvests grain and another grapes, while a man and a woman operate a wine press. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel is in midair with an open book. Near it are two other angels and the symbols of the four gospels (eagle, bull, winged lion, and human figure), and above the all is a lamb with a cross-staff. Below this heavenly scene is the landscape of the earth with its cities, many of which are in ruins. -
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: Towering above several men on their knees is the first beast with its ten horns and seven heads. A second beast has the appearance of a lamb. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The two witnesses stand before the crowned beast, as John measures the Temple in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel presents a book to John, who kneels before him. -
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 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 144,000. Angels hovering with cross and sword hold back the four winds of the earth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Sacrament of Marriage. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The sixth seal (Rev. 6:12-17). Earthquake, stars fall, the sky rolls up like a scroll, and kings and slaves alike attmpt to hide. -
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: 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: 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: The Apostle John sits and gazes at a vision of the Madonna and child, as he writes in a book. His attribute, an eagle, stands nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John's vision of Christ (Rev. 1:12-17) with a sword emerging from his mouth and seven stars in his right hand; seven lampstands and a reclining John are at his feet. From the Dietenberger Bible, the German trans-lation issued by Johann Dietenberger (d. 1534) as a Roman Catholic Response to Luthe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Title-page for the New Testament, surrounded by coats of arms and crests. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Matthew sits at a desk and writes in a book, and an angel appears nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mark sits at a desk and writes in a book, as a lion with luminous head lies nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Luke sits at a desk and writes in a book, as an ox with luminous head lies nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This scene of Jesus teaching his disciples accompanies the text of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This portrait of Luther includes the date of his death, as well as the signature mark of the artist, Lucas Cranach -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Samson tears off the city gates of Gaza and carried them away on his back. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden by an angel with a sword; a tree is prominent in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac with his sword on the flaming altar nearby, an angel restrains him. A ram appears caught in a thicket nearby Akedah -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The molten sea was supported on twelve oxen and made of bronze -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Priests carry the Ark of the Covenant across the Jordan River on dry land, as the Israelite soldiers and others look on. A ship is visible in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses and a priestly figure carry Miriam's body for burial, and Moses lifts his staff to strike a rock to produce water for the Israelites that look on. Sword. Same image as that used for Exod 17. -
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: The priests Nadab and Abihu are destroyed by fire from God. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Crucifixion. Jesus Christ is crucified, with the inscription "INRI" overhead, one soldier standing guard beneath the cross, two more on horseback, one lifting a spear to Jesus' side, and two of Jesus' followers barely visible at the lefthand edge. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is shown here with his twelve disciples at the last supper -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Philip is shown here being martyred by crucifixion -
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: This engraving is the third of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. Now fully vested in the habit, the nuns kneel in a circle before the bishop -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a city in the background, there is shown the tabernacle with the menora and other furnishings inside it, the laver and altar before it on the stone pavement, and a curtain/wall circumscribing it. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Daniel stands in prayer in the lions' den, flanked by two lions, as an angel flies overhead holding another (bearded) human figure with a jar in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the Electoral arms of Saxony at the head of the page and the arms of the city of Wittenberg at the foot -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits and gazes at a vision of the Madonna and child, as he writes in a book. His attribute, an eagle, stands nearby. -
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: Job's three friends stand with scepter, sword, and fine clothing before a naked Job, who sits under a tree in the countryside. A city is visible in the distance -
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: Pharaoh is shown on his bed, dreaming of seven lean cattle devouring seven fat cattle, and seven lean heads of grain devouring seven full heads. Also used to illustrate Esth 1 and "what Mordecai dreamed." -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses with staff in hand appears before the throne of Pharaoh. In the background the Israelites are seen making bricks. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From his ornate throne/seat, Isaac blesses Jabob, as Rachel stands nearby with a dish of food in hand and Esau is visible running with bow and arrow and with a dog outside. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Noah's ark floats in the sea, one can see the heavy rain, floating debris, and a bird flying overhead with a branch of a tree. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Good Samaritan leads the wounded man into Jericho on his donkey. -
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 Sacrament of Holy Orders confers grace on the person appointed to ecclesiastical office -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of ? winged satyr time scythe forelock Inscription TEMPUS Inscription HANC ACIEM VERTUS SOLA RETUNDIT ("virtue alone withstands this blade") Note the forelock on Time--so that one may sieze Time by the forelock INCOMPLETE -
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: As a roof is being thatched and sheep are being tended in the background, Jesus teaches a Jewish audience -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A man stands outside a city and gestures to the sky, where sun, moon, and stars appear. (Isaiah?) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Hosea and Gomer with two children in the countryside. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Joseph's brothers lower him into a pit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seven-branched lampstand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus defends himself against the charges of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law that he ate with sinners and tax collectors -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a man strides across a field, sowing grain, Jesus teaches his disciples the Parable of the Sower -
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: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle James (the Greater) was martyred by being beheaded -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Leading out a group of armed guards with torches, Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus Christ with a kiss; Simon Peter stands with sword raised above one of the guards, who kneels on the ground with his lantern. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Amos sits and reads from a book to a Jewish audience in a synagogue.