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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot, wearing alb and chasuble, kneels before the presiding bishop who lays his hands on the abbot’s head to bless him
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    Description: Mark the Evangelist sits at a writing table composing his gospel account, as the Holy Spirit appears outside the window in the form of a dove.
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    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
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    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
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    Description: This miniature version of the seven-headed Luther imitates that used in 1529 by J. Cochlaeus in his attacks on the reformer
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    Description: At the time of vespers on the Saturday before the Sunday on which a priest will be consecrated a bishop, he is questioned by at least three bishops in the presence of other priests
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    Description: A man sits at a desk on which there is an open book. (Prophet B, the second of two generic images of prophets)
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    Description: A woman with a crown on he head sits at a desk on which there is an open book. Vessels are on the shelf nearby
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    Description: The Apostle Paul sits at a desk with an open book before him. Another book is in one hand,a sword in the other
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    Description: Luke sits at a desk with a book open before him, as an ox reclines before the desk
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    Description: The Apostle John sits at a desk with a book, as an eagle stands before him
  • 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 man sits at a desk on which there is an open book. (Prophet B, the second of two generic images of prophets)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle John works at his writing desk, with the eagle, his attribute nearby
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of three illustrating various rites for those under holy orders. The bishop lays his hand on the head of a priest as he prays for him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This is the last of three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bishop places a thurible filled with incense under the bell and allows the smoke of the incense to rise and envelope the bell
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This is the second of three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bishop makes seven crosses with his right hand on the outside of the bell using holy oil
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This is the first of three engravings illustrating the blessing of a new bell for a church. The bell is set up inside the church for the blessing. The bishop is seated while several Psalms are chanted. The implements needed for the ceremony are set out on a table
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The bishop blesses a suit of armor that is laid out on a table
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This is the first of two engravings illustrating the blessing of a new cross for a church. The bishop blesses the cross with incense and holy water
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    Description: The priestly vestments for use in a new church are laid out on a table. The bishop blesses all of them at once
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts a monk and a nun on either side and the Green Man of pagan and Christian lore below. Attributed to the workshop of Lucas Cranach, the Elder
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border features the Apostles Peter and Paul and the symbols of the four Evangelists. The Electoral arms of Saxony, the date 1522, and the monogram of the printer (IG = Johann Grunenberg) are at the base. It is a free imitation of a larger title-page border by Urs Graf
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    Description: The lamb is shown with a banner in the sky, surrounded by angels playing on harps, and four beasts with wings: lion, human figure, eagle, and ox. A book is opened and the cities of the earth are being destroyed.
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    Description: As Babylon is consumed by flames and merchants wail, two angels fly overhead. Open book.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Pope Alexander III receives the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa)
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    Description: The seventh angel appears amidst clouds with a luminous face and legs as pillars, and John kneels before him with a book in hand.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Paul sits at a writing desk and distates to another man at another writing desk nearby and with pen and a book before him.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: John sits with pen in hand and a book before him, an eagle stands nearby and a vision of the Madonna and child appears before him.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Luke sits at a writing desk with a fireplace nearby, a bull at his feet, and a book before him.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant posits one servant receiving forgiveness of a great debt from his master, but then this servant refuses to forgive a fellow servant a much smaller debt
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Title page for 'Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. iussu restitutum atque editum' (Rome, 1595), a book describing rites performed by Roman Catholic bishops. It was also called 'Liber Sacramentorum,' 'Liber Officialis,' 'Liber Pontificalis,' etc. The engravings of the work in the Digi...
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    Description: A generic image of a prophet is used here to represent Baruch
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    Description: The prophet Isaiah sits at his desk with a book before him (and others visible in the body of the desk)
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    Description: King David sits on his throne with a harp beside him a book in hand
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    Description: Taken from the title page of an early sixteenth-century Catholic work on the Mass, this woodcut depicts a congregant kneeling as the priest per-forms the eucharistic service. Note the four woodcut border panels that have been used rather crudely to frame the central engraving
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Peter rests against a tree with a book and a key in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Matthew stands with book and spear in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Matthias stands with book in hand and his attribute the axe, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the blade of the axe.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Bartholomew stands with book and knife in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Philip stands with a staff with a cross at its head, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper left.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle Andrew stands alongside the diagonal cross with book in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martrydom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the upper left end of the cross.
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    Description: Phoebe arrives as a courier to deliver a letter to the Apostle Paul.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. As the Offertory of the Mass begins, the new abbess comes before the bishop once again with her women companions and kneels before him in order to kiss his hand. When she returns to her place, the Mass proceeds
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. After blessing a veil with holy water, the bishop places it on the head of the new abbess so that it falls across her shoulders and back and down to her eyes
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop offers the book of the Rule of her order to the abbess-elect
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. The abbess-elect kneels before the standing bishop while he lays his hands on her head, blessing her
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. The abbess-elect, her face unveiled, leaves the enclosure of the monastery for the ceremony accompanied by two older matrons. She kneels before the presiding bishop and makes her oath of office. Then she places her hand...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot, wearing a mitre and holding a crozier, kneels before the presiding bishop in front of the altar for the bishop’s final blessing
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eighth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The presiding bishop places a mitre on the head of the new abbot who kneels before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the seventh in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. Seated on his throne, the presiding bishop offers a crozier to the new abbot while his community looks on
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the sixth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot kneels before the bishop, seated on his throne, and receives a copy of the Rule of his order from the bishop. His fellow monks stand in witness to this
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot prostrates himself before the altar on which rests the book of the Gospels. The bishop and assistant abbots kneel before the altar. The community of monks stand as witnesses
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The new abbot, now wearing vestments and cope, kneels before the presiding bishop. The bishop presents the book of the Gospels to him and he touches it with his hands. The community of monks stand a...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot-elect kneels before the bishop, seated on his throne, who removes the secular clothing he had been wearing and replaces it with the habit
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of an abbot. The monk chosen to become an abbot kneels before the presiding bishop wearing his normal, daily clothing. The bishop, surrounded by assistant abbots and priests, blesses him. The community of monks stand as ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a bishop. The ceremony of bestowal of the pallium must take place in the new bishop’s own diocese. The pallium is a long woolen cloth embroidered with six small black crosses sent to the bishop by the pope. Here t...
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    Description: This engraving is the tenth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The presiding bishop with his two assistant bishops place a mitre on the new bishop’s head
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eighth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, with his hands still bound within a long linen cloth, kneels before the presiding bishop. The latter offers the book of the Gospels (formerly on the back of the one being consecrat...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Here the Evangelist Matthew writes his gospel account, receiving inspiratiion from the angel that appears outside his window.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the seventh in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, with his head and hands wrapped in two long linen cloths is offered the bishop’s crozier or staff by the presiding bishop. A priest continues to hold the book of the Gospels open...
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    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.
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    Description: The angel presents a book to John, who kneels before him.
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    Description: The Apostle John sits and gazes at a vision of the Madonna and child, as he writes in a book. His attribute, an eagle, stands nearby.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Matthew sits at a desk and writes in a book, and an angel appears nearby.
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    Description: Mark sits at a desk and writes in a book, as a lion with luminous head lies nearby.
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    Description: Luke sits at a desk and writes in a book, as an ox with luminous head lies nearby.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle John sits and gazes at a vision of the Madonna and child, as he writes in a book. His attribute, an eagle, stands nearby.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Amos sits and reads from a book to a Jewish audience in a synagogue.
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    Description: A rendering of a queen holding a crucifix and an open book.
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    Description: The Evangelist Luke, with halo overhead and his attribute the ox to the left, sits at his writing desk and writes his gospel account.
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    Description: This engraving illustrates the reconciliation of an apostate, schismatic or heretic. The bishop sits outside the church. The heretic kneels before him, while the bishop asks him a series of questions, such as “Do you believe in the twelve articles of the faith?” To these the heretic must reply,...
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    Description: The bishop blesses a military banner with water and then hands it to a soldier
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    Description: This is the first of two engravings illustrating the blessing of a new cross for a church. The bishop blesses the cross with incense and holy water
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    Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit
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    Description: Here the Apostle Paul appears with his attributes
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    Description: The Apostle James Minor or James, the Less, stands with book in hand and his attribute the fuller's club, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by being thrown from a parapet and then beaten with a fuller's club. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the uppe...
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    Description: Jesus is cicumcised at the Temple. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As the prophet Joel sits before his desk with a book open before him, the sun moon,stars even God appear before him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Mark sits at a desk with a book open before him, as a winged lion is positioned before the desk
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    Description: A Roman Catholic priest administers last rites to a person in bed, as a family member is comforted nearby by a priest
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Standing in the Jordan River in the posture of prayer, Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist, as God looks on from above and the Holy Spirit descends as a dove
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    Description: A baby is baptised in this illustration of the Sacrament of Baptism.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Mark sits at his writing desk, a lion at his feet and a book before him.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jonah sits in the posture of prayer with a book on the ground before him, a tree/vine shading him, and Ninevah visible in the distance.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jehudi reads to King Jehoiakim and his advisers the book of prophecies, dictated by Jeremiah to Baruch, and then the king has the pages burned in the fireplace nearby.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A fire burning outside, a priest reads from a book to a king, seated on his throne with scepter in hand, surrounded by his advisors.
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    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
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    Description: The apostle Paul with his attribute, the sword
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    Description: An angel instructs John to eat the little scroll
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    Description: The apostle peter with his attribute, the key