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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Printer Device
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Chrestien Wechel (1495-1554), father of printer Andreas Wechel, features Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology that rose into the heavens to become a constellation of stars -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Antonio Blado (1490-1567) -
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 portrait of Georg Rhaw also served as this Wittenberg printer's device -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Johann Gymnich I (d. 1544) was designed by Anton Woensam of Worms -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Franz Behem (ca. 1500-1582) develops an ancient Christian symbol of a mother pelican feeding her young. Hans Schäufelein (ca. 1480 - ca. 1539) is regarded as the artist responsible for the design -
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: Printer's device for Christopher Plantin (1520-1589) The motto on the device reads, "labore et constantia" ("labor and tenacity"). Plantin explained about the device that "the outer point of the pair of compases … represents work and the centre point constancy" (Davies, Devices, p. 678) -
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: In the printer’s device of Hans Lufft (1495-1584), two hands grasp a sword with a heart on its tip, and two serpents wrap themselves around the sword