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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jerome, with the hat of a cardinal, sits in his study at a deskwrites in a book. Other books are on the deskshelves nearby,a lion is at his feet
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A crowned woman, with a flag in one handa cup in the other, rides a four-headed (lion, eagle, bull,man) beast. Each foot of the beast corresponds to a head
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This title-page woodcut features caricatures of six Roman Catholics: Johann Eck (with fool's cap), Girolamo Aleandro (as lion), Augustin von Alveld (as donkey), Dam (as pig), Thomas Murner (as cat) and Hieronymus Emser (as goat)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Printer’s device of Crato Mylius (1503-1547) or Krafft Müller (German form of his name), designed by Heinrich Vogtherr, the Elder. The lion symbolizes strength, as does Samson (shown on the shield with the jawbone of an ass), and the pillar, fortitude--obvious allusions to his first name (Ger. Kr...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Medallion portrait of Philipp Melanchthon.(1497-1560)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer's device for Ioanne (Iehan) Petit, showing a leopard and alion on either side of a tree holding a shield with a crest, angels or putti above. Jean Petit (fl. 1492-1530)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the Greek god Hercules from the rear.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the Greek god Hercules with his characteristic lion hood and musculature.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: An angel is in midair with an open book. Near it are two other angels and the symbols of the four gospels (eagle, bull, winged lion, and human figure), and above the all is a lamb with a cross-staff. Below this heavenly scene is the landscape of the earth with its cities, many of which are in ruins.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The fifth angel blows a trumpet, as smoke from the shaft of the bottomless pit rises. There is a fallen star, locusts with crowns, human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion tails. The angel of the bottomless pit appears in the smoke, and men lie dead around the mouth of the pit.