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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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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: 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: This printer’s device of Henri Estienne (1531-1598) 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: Arnold Birckmann (fl. 1530-1542) used various printer's devices, but most made use of a hen standing before a birch tree (=Birke) -
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: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). The engraving is by Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein, the Younger -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). The engraving is by Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1527. -
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: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog) -
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