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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen kneels before the presiding bishop while he anoints her hands and arms with the oil of catechumens -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen prostrates herself on a pillow before the altar as a litany is sung. The presiding bishop, auxiliary bishops and priests kneel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The queen-elect sits between two auxiliary bishops in front of the presiding bishop. A group of noblemen and priests looks on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the blessing of a soldier/knight. The soldier kneels before the bishop who offers him a sword -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing and coronation of a queen. The presiding bishop offers the scepter to the crowned queen as she kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. While the builders look on, the bishop begins to lower the first stone of the new church building, marked with a cross, into a trough already dug in the ground -
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: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. A large cross has been fixed in the ground where the new church will stand. Mixing the salt he has just blessed in the water, the bishop sprinkles the blessed water on the ground a... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut appears on the verso of the title page of John Eck’s reply to Philipp Melanchthon about the Leipzig Disputation. It shows St. Jerome in prototypical fashion, kneeling before a crucifix and smiting himself on the chest with a stone. It also includes two of the other 'attributes' that ...