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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This playful title-page border is a copy of that done by the monogrammist "H' (see Johannes Luther, Titeleinfassungen, 68 and 68c)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Three women come to the tomb with their jars of ointment to anoint the body of Jesus for burial, only to find the stone at the door of the tomb rolled away and an angel inside. This woodcut illustrates Luther’s sermon on Mark 16, which identifies the three women as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus is tempted by the devil (a hairy figure with horns, a tail, and breasts) in the wilderness. In the foreground the devil presents Jesus with a loaf of bread (similarly-shaped stones are scattered on the ground nearby), and in the background there are fields and a city, with Jesus, the tempte...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer's device for Thomas Anshelm Badensis (note the monogram) includes the Hebrew and Greek forms of "Jesus." Here it occurs on the last leaf of the 1518 edition of the great sixteenth-century Christian Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin’s, work on Hebrew accentuation and orthography (dedicated to ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border is dated 1519 and features the monogram of (perhaps) the artist responsible
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border features cherubs and is dated 1519
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border Master of the Zackenblätter = Monogrammist MB; related artistically to J. Luther 100, which has also been ascribed to this artist; some relation also to Dürer and Graf
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border with the printer's device of Friedrich Peypus (1485-1534)