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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer's device for Johannes Crato (d. 1578) shows Samuel anointing David with oil from a ram's horn, as David kneels in prayer before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With a horn of oil the prophet Samuel anoints young David to become Israel’s next king (1 Samuel 16). One of David’s attributes, the harp, rests on the ground beside him. The woodcut serves as a printer’s device for Samuel Selfisch (or, Seelfisch) of Wittenberg or of Gabriel Schnellboltz (cf. W.L...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The device of publisher Samuel Selfisch shows the prophet Samuel anointing David to be king of Israel