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Filtering by: Contributing Institution Pitts Theology Library Remove constraint Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Format (Digital) JPEG Remove constraint Format (Digital): JPEG Collection Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Remove constraint Collection: Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Subject Bear Remove constraint Subject: Bear Subject Printer Device Remove constraint Subject: Printer Device

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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer's device of Jacob Bährwald (fl. 1539-1570) suggests a wordplay on the two elements of the German surname: Bähr (Bär = bear) and Wald (forest)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible with the Tetragrammaton (Yahweh) inscribed