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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Two armies engaged in battle. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Christological interpretation of Isaiah 11: As Jesse, the father of David, lies on the ground, from his side grows up a tree at whose center is the Madonna and child -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Canaanite woman in the region of Tyre and Sidon kneels before Jesus, requesting that he heal her daughter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As two men stand on the road leading to a great, walled city, they see overhead in the clouds the cavalries of two armies doing battle -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the old Pharaoh, who knew and favored Joseph is laid by his attendants in the tomb, a new Pharaoh with crown and scepter receives his subjects from a balcony. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus sits at the dinner table with Simon the Pharisee, a woman kneels before Jesus and anoints his feet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Aaron appears in priestly garments with an incense burner in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses stands before the Ark of the Covenant, and sees that the rod/staff of Aaron has blossomed/sprouted. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With his wife Sarah standing inside the house nearby, Abraham kneels to welcome three strangers to his home. Birds fly over head. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Initial Letter A shows death or mortality in the figure of a skeleton, holding an hourglass in one hand and a spear in the other and threatening a man who sits at a well-stocked table. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border Title border by Jörg Breu, the Elder (ca. 1480-1537) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Adam and Eve stand arm in arm in the Garden of Eden, Eve receives fruit from the serpent -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Adam and Eve appear with the serpent in the Garden of Eden -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Adam and Eve are shown in the Garden of Eden; nearby is the serpent and a tree loaded with fruit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Ahaz measures the altar in Damascus, as a priest sets fire to the wood and the lamb on the altar. In the background captives are led out of Damascus by the Assyrian soldiers of Tiglath-Pileser. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The outer components of the altar set around the inner grate -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Amos sits and reads from a book to a Jewish audience in a synagogue. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Jesus exorcises a demon from a man who was mute -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel instructs Tobiah to retrieve the fish for medicinal purposes. Tobiah's dog stands nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Mary and Jesus sleep, Gabriel comes to Joseph to warn him to flee to Egypt with his family in order to escape Herod's plot to slay infant Jewish males -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: While Jesus dines in the home of a Pharisee, a sinful woman came and anointed Jesus' head with oil -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This title-page woodcut features caricatures of six Roman Catholics: Johann Eck (with fool's cap), Girolamo Aleandro (as lion), Augustin von Alveld (as donkey), Dam (as pig), Thomas Murner (as cat) and Hieronymus Emser (as goat) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel Gabriel, carrying a staff with the banner reading "Plene gracia ave," announces to Mary that she will give birth to a son, as God looks on from above and the Holy Spirit descends on her as a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's correspondence with the Corinthian church, here the Apostle Paul receives (or sends?) a letter from a richly dressed emissary of the church. The apostle has his typical attribute, the sword, and the church's messenger, hat in hand, passes along to Paul a sealed envelope. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Given its placement in this New Testament, the Apostle Paul is shown writing a letter to Timothy. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of a column is related to 1 Kings -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From Lucas Cranach, the Elder. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border with putti and crucifix. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border, with putti at the top and Jesus Christ driving the money-changers out of the Temple, overturning their table in the process. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This simple title-border includes the double-eagle of the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor the place of publication (Wittenberg) is fictitious (it was in fact published in Strasbourg by Matthias Schuerer's heirs) -
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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the ark of the covenant and the altar for the burnt offerings -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (1503-1554). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coats of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (left) and Landgrave Philip of Hesse (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the disciples gather around the mount of ascension, Jesus goes up into the clouds and only his footprints are left. This engraving was offered as an illustration of Mark 16 (v. 19) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Gedaliah, appointed governor of Judah by the Babylonian king, is slain with his Jewish associates and Babylonian soldiers by Ishmael and his company. All are depicted in armor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Pope with an audience -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Baptism of Jesus by John, -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is baptised by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the mother and father stand beside the baptismal font in a church, a Roman Catholic priest baptizes an infant -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A generic image of a prophet is used here to represent Baruch -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Bathsheba pleads with the aged King David on behalf of her son Solomon. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Judas Maccabeus leads the Jewish army to victory in a battle against Apollonius and the gentiles. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Ark of the Covenant is carried on poles by Joshua's army around the city of Jericho, as Israelite trumpets are blown. The city begins to crumble in the distance -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The decapitated body of John the Baptist and the soldier sheathing his sword are in the foreground, while John's head is carried on a platter to the table where Herod the tetrarch and his consort Herodias are seated at table in the rear -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In a workshop with large table and furnace two craftsmen, Bezalel and Oholiab, fashion the bowls and other utensils to be used in the Israelite Temple/tabernacle cult with hammer and anvil. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus blesses the children -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the blessing of a soldier/knight. The soldier kneels before the bishop who offers him a sword -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Manna from Heaven. The bread called manna falls from the sky and is gathered into baskets by Israelites, with their tents in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The bronze movable stand on wheels, decorated with cherubim and lions. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The two bronze pillars with ornate capitals. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses and a priestly figure carry Miriam's body for burial, and Moses lifts his staff to strike a rock to produce water for the Israelites that look on. Sword. Same image as that used for Exod 17. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The sacrifices of Cain and Abel, as well as Cain's murder of his brother, are show in this image -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a fire blazes on an altar outside with slaughtered lambs/sheep at its base, and priestly figures place loaves of bread on the altar, inside a group of men stand about a table and eat the Passover with their staffs in hand. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As God looks on from the clouds, Moses with staff in hand walks with Aaron toward the Israelites to take a census of them. Their tents are in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John 2 describes Jesus' first sign as that of changing water to wine at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Christ uses the staff of the Christian banner to break the wooden gates of hell -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus teaching his disciples to pray appears in "Brevis institutio" (1549), or "Brief Instruction in Catholic piety," based on Michael Helding's sermons in the Mainz cathedral from 1542-1544 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The circumcision of Jesus, as Mary and Joseph look on. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is cicumcised at the Temple. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Joseph and Mary stand by as Jesus is circumcised by a priest in the Temple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The artist of this engraving of the circumcision of John the Baptist was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a whip Jesus chased moneychangers out of the Jerusalem Temple. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Arms of Adriano Cardinal Castellense (b. ca. 1458) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Hermann V, von Wied (d.1552) adorned the title-page of a history recounting his activities as the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne and an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Below the coat of arms for Bernardo Cardinal Clesio (1485-1539) is a bundle of sticks with the motto "unitas," an appropriate encouragement for this piece, issued in hopes of a quick victory over the Turkish armies. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms for Bishop Sidonius (Michael Helding, d. 1561) of Merseburg (1550-1561). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Coat of Arms for Johannes Reuchlin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V adorned the title-page of the account of the surrender of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, to him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms of Hieronymus Emser (1478-1527), one of Luther's most vigorous opponents -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Arms of Leipzig -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Two putti support the coat of arms of the city of Magdeburg -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of the city of Nuremberg -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The papal coat of arms for Julius II (1503-1513), keys and the triple tiara, and tree -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: When a bishop leaves on a trip by horse, prayers are said that the trip may be peaceful -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This representation of the sacrament of confession appeared on the title-page of a work by the former Dominican preacher, Jakob Strauss, on true contrition and the Catholic practice of confession (which Strauss considered a work of the devil) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. The bishop, with attendant priests at his side, is making the sign of the cross with holy oil on the forehead of the boy being confirmed. The child’s sponsor looks on with his arm around the child -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop confirms a child whose sponsor kneels behind him. Another child and sponsor stand before a scribe who is writing the child’s name (?) in a ledger -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. The bishop, with attendant priests at his side, is making the sign of the cross with holy oil on the forehead of the boy being confirmed. The child’s sponsor looks on with his arm around the child -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of two illustrating the sacrament of confirmation. Seated on his throne and with attendant priests at his side, the bishop confirms a child whose sponsor kneels behind him. Another child and sponsor stand before a scribe who is writing the child’s name (?) in a ledger -
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... -
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: This engraving is the eleventh in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a bishop. The new bishop, wearing a mitre and carrying a crozier, kneels before the three bishops who have consecrated him. He is blessed again by the presiding bishop -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect, wearing a biretta or pointed cap and a cope, sits in the midst of several other bishops who will consecrate him. The presiding bishop wears a chasuble and mitre, the other bishops ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fourth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the chief consecrating bishop, as he and his assistant bishops place the book of the Gospels on his neck and shoulders -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the presiding bishop and says aloud the oath of his office -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the ninth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. With a lit candle in his hand, the bishop-elect kneels before the presiding bishop. Assistant priests stand in the background, carrying the loaves of bread and kegs of wine that will be consecrated d... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect kneels before the seated presiding bishop. A priest continues to hold the book of the Gospels open behind his head while the presiding bishop makes a sign of the cross with holy oil... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop. The bishop-elect with the strip of linen (mappula) tied around his head, kneels before the presiding bishop who anoints both his hands with holy oil. Another priest continues to hold the book of the... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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 third in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop: the prostration before the altar. The bishop-elect lies fully prostrate on the floor before the altar, while the chief consecrating bishop and his assistant bishops kneel and recite a litany. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a man lies dead, mourners lament his passing. The monogram of Hans Leonhard Schaeufelein (d. 1540?) adorns the left borrom corner