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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Daniel stands in prayer in the lions' den, flanked by two lions, as an angel flies overhead holding another (bearded) human figure with a jar in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the Electoral arms of Saxony at the head of the page and the arms of the city of Wittenberg at the foot -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jacob's ladder. Jacob is asleep on the ground, from which a ladder ascends to the figure of God in the clouds. One angel is ascending the ladder, while another is descending. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Daniel is in the lions' den, and an angel appears overhead, holding a man up by his hair. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This familiar scene of the birth of Jesus shows the shepherds hastening to the manger scene -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the victorious Christ appears in the heavens, angels separate the saved from the lost, and the latter are hurried into the gaping mouth of Hell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Abraham holds a sword overhead, about to slay his son Isaac, when an angel intervenes. To the side is a ram, horns entangled in a thicket, and a pot of coals for the sacrifice. This is one of several full-page woodcuts, perhaps prepared by Lucas Cranach for Luther’s translation of the Old Testament. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The story of the patriarch Jacob’s dream of a ladder (or more likely, a stairway) from earth to heaven (Genesis 28) forms the basis for this illustration, perhaps by Cranach. It is one of several full-page woodcuts by the famous artist that were prepared for Luther’s translation of the Old Testam...