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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus j... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Thomas Anshelm Badensis (note the monogram) includes the Hebrew and Greek forms of "Jesus." Here it occurs on the last leaf of the 1518 edition of the great sixteenth-century Christian Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin’s, work on Hebrew accentuation and orthography (dedicated to ... -
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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border. Attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of a printing press -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating a sermon by Luther on the Eucharist, the engraving shows the sacrament eing offered to the communicant in both kinds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features various animals and a hunter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian monk -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border is dated 1519 and features the monogram of (perhaps) the artist responsible