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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop stands before the altar and, with his right hand, takes some of the blessed water and makes a sign of the cross with it in the middle o... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the arms of the city of Wittenberg at the head and the crest of the printer (Melchoir Lotter, the Younger) at the foot. It has been attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border with the printer's device of Friedrich Peypus (1485-1534) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Papal coat of arms for Pope Leo X (1475-1521) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving depicts the bishop as he blesses the accoutrements of the altar and church, such as various vessels, a censer and cloths for the altar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border has a fool on the left column and a satyr on the right. The artist is Urs Graf (c. 1485 - c. 1527), and his monogram is on a tablet at the left -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border illustrates either the printer's carelessness or his playfulness with its upside-down placement of the left panel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of exorcist, the third of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne and surrounded by attendant priests, offers an ornate book (perhaps the book of exorcisms) to one of the ordainees. The tonsure o... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of porter or doorkeeper, the first of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop gives a large key to the candidate for ordination, who kneels before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of lector or reader, the second of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. The bishop, seated on his throne, and the ordainees listen while another priest reads “verbum Dei,” or the word of God from a book, perhaps a lectionary o...