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  • 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: While Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, three of the disciples slumber
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border features the Apostles Peter and Paul and the symbols of the four Evangelists. The Electoral arms of Saxony, the date 1522, and the monogram of the printer (IG = Johann Grunenberg) are at the base. It is a free imitation of a larger title-page border by Urs Graf
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus comes to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where he calls the fishermen Peter, Andrew, James, and John
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Peter rests against a tree with a book and a key in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This medallion illustrations shows the transfigured Jesus, flanked by Moses and Elijah and receiving the adoration of the dsiciples Peter, James, and John
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Here the Apostle Peter, the characteristic key in hand, receives a sealed envelope from a messenger. As often is the case in the illustrations of this 1547 Bible, the messenger is shod but the saint is not.
  • 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: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle Peter was crucified upside-down
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus' disciples are sleeping on the night he was betrayed. Peter is asleep on the left, with his sword visible, and in the upper left is a cup in the sky.