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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Luke sits at a desk with a book open before him, as an ox reclines before the desk -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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: Joseph, husband of Mary, appears here as a herdsman -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits at a desk with a book, as an eagle stands before him -
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: 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: Saint Jerome strikes himself with a stone, while gazing at a cruficix. A lion is at his feet, the cardinal's hat nearby, and a city is visible in the background. Hieronymus (or 'Jerome') Hölzel (the printer; fl. 1500-1525) regarded St. Jerome as his patron saint -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Saint James, with staff in hand, receives a sealed envelope from a messenger. As often is the case in the illustrations of this 1547 Bible, the messenger is shod but the saint is not -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An ornamental title-page border frames St. Francis receiving the stigmata with another figure--possibly Brother Leo--looking on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of St. Anne helping another -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel prevents Abraham from sacrificinig his son Isaac to God; a ram is depicted in the thicket -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Abraham holds a sword overhead, about to slay his son Isaac, when an angel intervenes. To the side is a ram, horns entangled in a thicket, and a pot of coals for the sacrifice. This is one of several full-page woodcuts, perhaps prepared by Lucas Cranach for Luther’s translation of the Old Testament. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Gideon offers a sacrifice to the LORD during his commissioning under an oak tree in Ophrah -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title page image depicts the insignia of the senate and people of Rome (SPQR) with an image of Romulus and Remus being nursed by the she-solf below -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer's device depicts the insignia of the senate and people of Rome (SPQR) with an image of the shewolf nursing Romulus and Remus below -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title image depicts the insignia of the senate and people of Rome (SPQR) above a depiction of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title image depicts the insignia of the senate and people of Rome (SPQR) above a depiction of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title image depicts the insignia of the senate and people of Rome (SPQR) above a depiction of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of Boaz, Naomi, and Ruth (?) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Ruth meets Boaz as she gleans grain from his field -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An initial letter Z, showing reapers in the field, among whom are Ruth and Naomi. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating a Roman Catholic catechism, this wood-cut shows the administration of the Eucharist in both kinds, a practice that continued among some German Catholics into the second half of the sixteenth century. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the central court of the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus converses with Cleopas and another on the road to Emmaus -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus appears to Cleopas and another on the Road to Emmaus -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of several ritual vessels including the altar for the burnt offering, the altar of incense, the lampstand, the Ark of the Covenant, and the table with the bread of presence -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Ark of the Covenant and the incense altar. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seven-branched lampstand, the Menorah, the table with the Bread of the Presence, and miscellaneous plates and utensils -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image is from Luther's publication of the Theologia Deutsch (German Theology), written many years earlier by an unknown disciple of the Medieval German mystic, Johannes Tauler (ca. 1300-1361). Luther says in his preface that he has learned more from it than from any other book, excepting the... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Lazarus sits at the entrance to the rich man's house, his wounds being licked by dogs. In the background, Lazarus appears at Abraham's side -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the Jewish exiles to Babylon walk along the road with their baggage on their backs and on their pack animals, one can see the walls of Jerusalem in the distance and the scaffolding about its Temple. Also used to illustrate the return of Judas Maccabeus and his troops with their plunder from th... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus rises from the dead at the amazement of the soldiers -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus raises the widow’s son from the dead at Nain -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus raises from the dead -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus raises from the dead -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the risen Christ stands above the tomb, three guards sleep nearby -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The victorious and resurrected Christ appears over the slumbering guards -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus raises from the dead. A lion is at his feet representing the Gospel of Mark -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Accompanying Luther's sermon on John 20, this woodcut shows the resurrected Jesus appearing to the disciples. In the background Jesus sits at table to eat to show the disciples his corporeality -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the resurrected Christ. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With God looking on from the clouds above, Job's prosperity is restored: flocks of sheep and herds of camels; his brothers and sisters return and he has sons and daughters. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The image of a Catholic priest addresses his congregation is used to illustrate the Decalog -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The waters of the Reed (Red) Sea close over the Egyptian army -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jacob and Esau embrace upon being reunited -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The laborers rebuilding the city walls of Jerusalem keep weapons nearby for protection -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Rebekah offers Abraham's servant and his camels water from the well -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Levite's concubine and the daughter of the man who took the Levite in are taken to be raped for the evening -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus listens to a ruler's request that he raise the man's daughter from the dead (left), and then goes in response. Along the way a woman approaches him from behind, touches his garment, and is healed of her bleeding (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the late Roman Period temple at Rabba (er-Rabbah). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the late Roman Period temple at Rabba (er-Rabbah); arches from the modern period. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the temple at Rabba (er-Rabbah), showing the reuse of a Corinthian capital from an earlier period. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the late Roman Period temple at Rabba (er-Rabbah). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins from Rabba (er-Rabbah). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of Rabba (er-Rabbah) with modern settlement in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Rabanus Maurus (784?-856), Archbishop of Mainz, works at his writing desk -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Watch tower at Qumran (2nd cent. B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the "Store of Pottery" from Qumran (2nd-1st century B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of Qumran (2nd-1st century B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of a staircase from Qumran. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of Qumran (2nd-1st century B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of the potter's workshop from Qumran (2nd-1st cent. B.C.E). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of a cistern from Qumran (2nd-1st century B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the ruins of a cistern at Qumran (2nd-1st century B.C.E.). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of caves near Qumran. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found from one of the caves near Qumran. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of a queen holding a crucifix and an open book. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon in Jerusalem -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border depicting putti climbing among vines and engaged in harvest. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Israelites cut off the toes of King Adoni-Bezek upon defeating the Canaanites and Perizzites in battle -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The device of publisher Samuel Selfisch shows the prophet Samuel anointing David to be king of Israel -
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: 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: This engraving was done by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, and also appears in Passional Christi und Antichristi; it shows the Pope accompanied by a bishop and cardinals with soldiers on the way to Hell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of a printing press -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Leonard Parasol -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Luca-Antonio Giunta (1457-1538) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The text along the top of the medallion is the Latin version of God's proclamation to Peter, James, and John, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him" (RSV). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut appears on the verso of the title page of John Eck’s reply to Philipp Melanchthon about the Leipzig Disputation. It shows St. Jerome in prototypical fashion, kneeling before a crucifix and smiting himself on the chest with a stone. It also includes two of the other 'attributes' that ... -
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) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Vincenzo Vaugris (Venice) -
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: Attached to the folio printing of Gaguin’s work on the history of France is the printer’s device of Thielman Kerver (d. 1522). As was often the case, this device incorporates mythological elements (the two unicorns), elaborate flora (an oak tree occupies the central space), and a family crest -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in full form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME ("Do not become proud but stand in awe." Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Pietro Perna (1519 - ca. 1582) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Peter Apian (1495-1552) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Paul Fagius (1504-1549) shows a stork eating frogs, perhaps suggesting a wordplay on the printer's surname (Grk phagein = "to eat") -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's Device of Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Oudin Petit (d. 1572) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Nicolaus Diuitus, a Parisian printer -
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 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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Luca-Antonio Giunta (1457-1538) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Lazarus Schürer (fl. 1519-1521) was the printer for this edition of Erasmus’ Latin collection of similitudes and comparisons, metaphors, allusions, and poetical and biblical allegories. The device derives from that used by Matthias Schürer (fl. ca. 1508-1520) and may have been designed by Hans We... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Juan de Cánova (fl. 1555-1568) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The text along the top of the medallion is the Latin version of God's proclamation to Peter, James, and John, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him" (RSV) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The text along the top of the medallion is the Latin version of God's proclamation to Peter, James, and John, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him" (RSV)