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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Given its placement in this New Testament, the Apostle Paul is shown writing a letter to Timothy. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's correspondence with the Corinthian church, here the Apostle Paul receives (or sends?) a letter from a richly dressed emissary of the church. The apostle has his typical attribute, the sword, and the church's messenger, hat in hand, passes along to Paul a sealed envelope. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits in a pastoral setting with book in hand and his attribute, the eagle, nearby, as he looks upward at a vision of Jesus in the clouds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Nicolaus Diuitus, a Parisian printer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Hermann V, von Wied (d.1552) adorned the title-page of a history recounting his activities as the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne and an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V adorned the title-page of the account of the surrender of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, to him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This wood-engraving of the siege of a city, complete with cannons and assault ladders, adorned the title page of Ein vermanlied, a pro-Lutheran war song from the time of the Schmalkald War (1546-1547) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546) shows the mature reformer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Wolfgang Köpfel (d. 1554?) shows the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above two serpents grasping a stone block, perhaps serving as the headstone (= cornerstone) of a building, and so serving as a wordplay on the printer’s name (Kopf = head) -
Medallion Portraits of Luther, the Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony, and Melanchthon
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Medallion portraits of Martin Luther, Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony and Philipp Melanchthon.