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Creator: Gerretson, Frederik Carel, 1884-1958 Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Description: Permission to scan granted by Lisa MacLaren. View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Contributing Institution: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Libraries Description: Letter of thanks from T. A. Barnes to B. H. Carroll on sending him a history article that he wrote. The article aslo commends his writing. View Full Item at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Libraries -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 2 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church. (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum) Participants are noted as A. The Pastor who leads (verrichtet) the liturgy; B.B. The Pastors and Deacons accepting the ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: After cutting Damlip down from a gallows, a guard disembowels him. Damlip lies propped, still living, against the gallows, and a fire burns nearby, ready to consume his entrails. The recently severed noose hangs from Damlip's neck. An official on horseback supervises the execution, and a crowd of... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: This almanac contains columns for "The Golden numbre," "The Epact," "The circle of the Sunne," the "Dominicall letter," and the date of Easter. Each column supplies data for sequential years from 1563 through 1593. The almanac is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first edition ... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Gold hyperpyron minted at Constantinople. Bust of the Virgin within city walls. JPG file (116 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Gold hyperpyron minted at Constantinople. Andronicus and Michael kneeling on either side of Christ, who is crowning both emperors. JPG file (113 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Albright, Catmer, Lomas, Snoth, and Sole (all clothed) burn at two stakes. Lomas and two of the women fold their hands before them in prayer. One of the women raises her hand above her head. The martyrdom occurs at Canterbury. Even though the design of this woodcut is similar to other woodcuts th... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In this overhead view of Smithfield, Askew and two companions stand chained to stakes and await martyrdom. Workers prepare faggots, and a very large crowd observes, some from windows and surrounding roofs. Nicholas Shaxton, the one-time Bishop of Salisbury who resigned his bishopric following the... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Æ dupondius minted at Rome, A.D. 140-144. Radiate head right of Antoninus Pius. JPG file (204 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 3 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Participants in baptism are noted as: A. The Pastor, who does the baptizing, in white.; B.The Child is being baptized;... -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 6 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Participants are noted as A. The Priest who performs the baptism; C.C. The baptismal candidates; D.D. The Greenlander C... -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 5 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Participants are noted as A. The Priest who performs the baptism;B.B.B. The baptismal candidates; C.C. The National Wor... -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 7 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Bishop Edmund Bonner (xylographically identified as "Bo[n]no" ["Bonner"]) scourges a partially naked prisoner, who drips blood. An assistant covers his eyes and clasps the prisoner's head between his legs. Two priests observe, and a second and third attendant enter, one of whom carries a flail. T... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A barebacked man carries a burning taper in his left hand, while Bishop Edmund Bonner ("Bon[n]er") flogs him from behind. A crowd observes. This woodcut appears once in the second edition (1570) to illustrate the penance of John Florence. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/15. JPEG file (3.57 MB). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A barebacked man carries a burning taper in his left hand, while Bishop Edmund Bonner ("Bon[n]er") flogs him from behind. A crowd observes. This woodcut appears twice in the third edition (1576) to illustrate the penance of John Florence (sig. II6v [right], p. 636) and Tho. Pye and John Mendham (... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A barebacked man carries a burning taper in his left hand, while Bishop Edmund Bonner ("Bon[n]er") flogs him from behind. A crowd observes. This woodcut appears twice in the fourth edition (1583) to illustrate the penance of John Florence (sig. LL6r [right], p. 659) and Tho. Pye and John Mendham ... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A jailor guards Bradford, while three bishops question him in his cell. Xylographic labels identify Bradford and his guard ("Bradford" and "keper." ["keeper"]). Bradford carries a book, which symbolizes a Bible, in his right hand. This woodcut appears in the first through fourth editions (1563, 1... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A man and a woman lie partially submerged under a pile of boar meat. Five boars feed on both the meat and the martyrs. (Cartouche: "Christian maidens couered under hogs meate, and so cast to the swine to be deuoured. 88." ["Christian maidens covered under hogs' meat, and so cast to the swine to b... -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 14 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Participants are noted as: A. The Pastor, who performs the liturgy; B.B. The boys; C.C. The girls; D.D. Male attendant... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: "MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection). -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A woman and man, both bound, hang by their hair on either side of a tree. A second woman hangs by the ankles at the man's right. The first woman is partially clothed, and the man and the second woman are each dressed in loincloth. (Cartouche: "Some hanged by the heare and feete.41.80." [ "Some ha... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Wielding clubs in their right hands, two men attack three Christians (men and women) for refusing to worship the idol that sits behind them. Two of the victims raise their arms, and a third raises his right hand above his head and points upward. (Cartouche: "The Christians beaten with coudgils fo... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: After a series of protracted negotiations, Pope Clement VII denied King Henry VIII a legal divorce from his wife, Catharine of Aragon. These Arms appear at Foxe's printing of Pope Clement's bull of sentence against Henry. The papal tiara rests atop two crossed papal keys of office. A rope loosely... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In these Arms of Pope Julius II, the papal tiara rests behind two crossed papal keys of office. A shield sits before these keys and contains an oak tree bearing acorns. The shield also displays tassels. This woodcut appears in the fourth edition (1583) to illustrate Foxe's printing of Pope Clemen... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: As Collins burns at the stake in Smithfield, a guard holds Collins's dog by the tail and prepares to cast it in the fire. According to Foxe, Collins suffers martyrdom for having held his dog aloft, in mockery of the consecrated host, while he attended Mass. This crime also implicates the dog, who... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: COMMENTARII RERVM IN ECCLESIA GEstarum, maximarumq[ue], per totam Europam, persecutionum, a Vuicleui temporibus ad hanc usq[ue] ætate[m] descriptio. Liber primus. Autore Ioanne Foxo Anglo. HIIS IN CALCE ACCESSErunt Aphorismi Ioannis Vuicleui, cum collectaneis quibusdam, Reginaldi Pecoki Episcopi ... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Silver denarius minted at Rome, A.D. 186-187. Laureate head right of Commodus. JPG file (87 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 8 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Elements in the ceremony are noted as: A.A. The Consecrator in white with red sashes; B.B. The Deacon in white with whi... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Æ follis minted at Thessalonica, c. A.D. 312-313. Laureate, cuirassed and draped bust right of Constantine I. JPG file (99 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Æ follis minted at London, c. A.D. 310. Laureate and cuirassed bust right of Constantine I. JPG file ( 89 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Æ follis minted at Constantinople. Facing bust of Christ holding book of Gospels. JPG file (187 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Æ follis minted at Constantinople. Bust facing of Constantine X, holding cross and akakia. JPG file (188 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A crowd of mourners witnesses the burial of a Protestant martyr who has died in prison. Some observers carry longbows, and others raise their arms upward in song. Two individuals have removed their hats and hold them in their hands. This woodcut appears in the first through fourth editions (1563,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Simson lies in anguish on the rack ("Cutbert Simson upon the racke." ["Cuthbert Simpson upon the rack"]). Under the direction of a priest and two richly dressed figures, two workers operate the device. Stairs ascend upward at the left of the image. In an upper right insert, Simson stands handcuff... -
Contributing Institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library View Full Item at Princeton Theological Seminary Library -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Against a panoramic backdrop of Windsor Castle ("The Descripsion of Windsor [Castle]" ["The Description of Windsor Castle"]), three figures burn at the stake. Workers light the pyre, and richly dressed spectators and soldiers observe, some on horseback and others on foot. At the top of the image,... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: A man and a woman dressed in loincloth burn at the stake. Wielding a sharp hook, a soldier prepares to strike the man. Armed with a pike, a second soldier places the man’s entrails into the fire. The man looks down at the burning. (Cartouche: "Some burnt with their entrals torne out. 34." ["Some ... -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 9 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Elements in the ceremony are noted as:A. The Priest who performs the Liturgy; .B. The Priest breaks the bread; C. A Dea... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Taylor ("Mercifull father for Jesus sake, receiue my soule." ["Merciful father for Jesus sake, receive my soul"]) stands among faggots and extends his arms outward. Observing spectators and soldiers anticipate Taylor's execution. Two supervisors direct the preparations from horseback. This woodcu... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Silver denarius minted at Rome, A.D. 88-89. Minerva standing left, holding spear. JPG file (67 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Moravian College and Theological Seminary Reeves Library Description: Plate 16 in 1757 German text related to the Moravian Church (Kurze, zuverlaszige nachricht von der unter dem namen der Bomisch-Mahrischen bruder bekannten kirche Unitas Fratrum). Caption reads: Memorial for the departed Brothers and Sisters on Easter Morning on the hilltop in Herrnhuth. -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: While Doctor Henry Cole ("D. Cole.") preaches from a pulpit, a friar and two others pull Cranmer ("Cranmer.") down from a platform. A congregation and a group of clerics observe Cranmer's arrest. The event occurs at the University Church of St. Mary, in Oxford. This woodcut appears in the first t... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two soldiers observe as Tyrrell burns Allin's right hand by means of a lit candle. Allin had been carrying water to her mother, who lies sick in bed. Within the house, a man (presumably Allin's father) kneels before her mother and folds his hands in prayer. In an upper insert, Allin and her paren... -
Contributing Institution: Claremont School of Theology Library Description: Silver denarius minted at Rome. Horned, laureate and draped bust right of Elagabalus. JPG file (65 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Emperor Constantine I stands at his throne and embraces a bishop. The emperor holds the rod of his office in his left hand, and other bishops observe with approval. The damage to the OSU copy of this illustration (pictured here) results from a reader having defaced the woodcut that appears on the... -
Contributing Institution: Ohio State University Libraries and Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library Description: This woodcut image depicts selected reforms of the English church that transpired during the reign of King Edward VI. Priests and tonsured friars carry censing bells, mass books, crucifixes, and other allegedly dangerous objects of Roman Catholic devotion from a church ("The Temple well purged") ...