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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Title page for 'Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. iussu restitutum atque editum' (Rome, 1595), a book describing rites performed by Roman Catholic bishops. It was also called 'Liber Sacramentorum,' 'Liber Officialis,' 'Liber Pontificalis,' etc. The engravings of the work in the Digi...
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    Description: A rendering of the Pope with an audience
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    Description: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background
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    Description: Simon of Cyrene is ordered tp carry Jesus' cross after Jesus falls under its weight
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    Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga...
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    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
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    Description: God in the form of a king speaks the world into being
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    Description: The Roman Emperor Constantine sees the sign of the cross illuminated along with the inscription in this sign, you will conquer
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    Description: The Crucifixion. Jesus Christ is laid out on the cross by soldiers who drive the nails into his body, as Jesus' mother and disciples look on. The nails and other instruments are in the foreground and the "INRI" inscription ready to be affixed to the cross.
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    Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus, with the Apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus standing nearby, was included in a 1519 treatise by Luther on the worthy reception of the Eucharist. A skull is at the foot of the cross (alluding to the biblical references to Golgotha [the place of the ...
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    Description: Jesus hangs on the cross between two criminals as the crowds mock him
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    Description: Jesus is crucified between two thieves
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    Description: Taken from a sermon by Martin Luther on the suffering of Christ, this woodcut shows Jesus on the cross with his tomb before him and (perhaps) the Apostle John (or another disciple) kneeling in prayer or worship before him. In the lower right corner is the monogram of Hans Schäufelein (which incor...
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    Description: A rendering of the crucifixion with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on.
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    Description: This image of the crucifixion shows Martin Luther kneeling on the right, and Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, on the left, an arrangement that often appeared in later editions of the reformer's works
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    Description: Crucifixion with Open Tomb. The wood-engraving (on t.p.) has the monogram of H. Schäufelein, according to WA. Jesus cross prayer disciple
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    Description: With the inscription “INRI” (“Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum “ = “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”) at the head of the cross, this image shows Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Joseph of Arimathea taking the body of Jesus down from the cross
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    Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about greatness using children as an example
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    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and an image of Martin Luther with another at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and an image of Martin Luther with another at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and an image of Martin Luther with another at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and an image of Martin Luther with another at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border with the Luther Rose, attributed to the 'Master of Jacob's Ladder,' the so-called 'Lemberger-Double'
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    Description: This historiated title page border depicts the four attributes of the gospel writers, an image of God, and an image of the transfiguration
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    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: The dragon/serpent/Satan/devil is chained by an angel and forced into a burning pit. The angel wears a cross on his head and carries a key.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This beautifully crafted initial letter 'E' features two nudes with a cross, lily, and crown of thorns
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This initial letter E depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus, with crown and cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Initial letter F
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    Description: Jesus collapses under the weight of the cross, is helped by Simon of Cyrene, and is surrounded by a crowd and armed guards
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus Christ is brought down from the cross. The "INRI" inscription is visable over his head; the crown of thorns is left on the crossbeam on the right; and a ladder is used for the process. Jesus' disciples look on, and Joseph of Arimathea stands at the foot of the cross.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus Christ is brought down from the cross. The "INRI" inscription is visable over his head; the crown of thorns is left on the right crossbeam; and a ladder is used for the process.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Taken from the printing of an early and very popular sermon by Luther on indulgences and grace, this woodcut shows Jesus being taken down from the cross by Mary the mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Apostle John. This illustration is reminiscent of the “Man of Sorrows” image shown lat...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With the inscription “INRI” (“Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum “ = “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”) at the head of the cross, this image shows Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Joseph of Arimathea taking the body of Jesus down from the cross
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    Description: Here Jesus teaches his disciples of his impending death, indicated by the three crosses in the background at the upper left. The woodcut illustrated Luther’s sermon on John 12
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Having broken down the gate of Hell/Hades, Jesus proclaims salvation to those within. The demonic beasts of the netherworld threaten him from above and below. This was to have occurred between Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection.
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    Description: Jesus carries his cross to Calvary
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    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.
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    Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe...
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    Description: Mark writes his gospel with his attribute, the lion, nearby
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    Description: Pope Urban VI succeeds Pope Gregory XI
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    Description: A portrait of St. Catherine of Siena with a crucifix and the wounds of stigmata
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    Description: Printer’s device of Vincenzo Vaugris (Venice)
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    Description: Illustrating a Roman Catholic catechism, this wood-cut shows the administration of the Eucharist in both kinds, a practice that continued among some German Catholics into the second half of the sixteenth century.
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    Description: Jesus Christ with the crown of thorns on his head and a guard at either side appears at a window. Soldiers stand outside, where a cross has been prepared
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus Christ collapses under the weight of the cross, is helped by Simon of Cyrene, and is surrounded by a crowd and armed guards; Jerusalem is in the background.
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    Description: St. Catherine of Siena prays to Jesus Christ on behalf of the apostate, who is being tortured
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: St. Catherine of Siena resuscitates a woman from the dead
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    Description: Christ appears as a pauper before St. Martin, whereupon St. Martin removes his cloak and gives it to Christ without knowing it was Jesus