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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Zechariah sits on the ground, and before him is an angel, an armed soldier on horseback (red horse, among the myrtle trees), and in the clouds are visible four soldiers with swords and four horns.
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    Description: Three women come to the tomb with their jars of ointment to anoint the body of Jesus for burial, only to find the stone at the door of the tomb rolled away and an angel inside. This woodcut illustrates Luther’s sermon on Mark 16, which identifies the three women as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother...
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    Description: An angel shows John the new heaven and the new earth. A city is stretched out before him below.
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    Description: A rendering of the Trinity
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    Description: Three women with jars of ointment come to the tomb of Jesus, only to find it empty and an angel sitting astride the coffin
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    Description: The woman, the child, and the dragon. The child is snatched away by angels to God in heaven, while Michael and the angels battle the there. The woman wears a crown and is given eagles' wings, and the earth swallows up the river poured out of dragon's mouth.
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    Description: The Triumphant Christ is flanked by the Electoral and Ducal coats of arms of Saxony
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    Description: The sixth angel blows a trumpet, and a third of humankind is slaughtered. There is a golden altar before God, and below it are breastplated riders on horses with lions' heads.
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    Description: As God appears behind an altar with an angel on either side (one with a trumpet), there appears below four horsemen and several angels slaying humans.
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    Description: The seventh seal. Angels with trumpets are at the altar before God. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, hail, and fire afflict the earth, and ships are destroyed.
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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.
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    Description: A winged woman stands on the moon in the posture of prayer, with a crown of twelve stars on her hand. Above her two angels carry a baby on a cloth stretched between them. Above all is visible God and the ark in the clouds. A beast with seven heads, attacked by angels with swords and spears, conf...
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    Description: Seven angels pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God, and humans are shown suffering afflictions from this. Below, a beast spews out spirits like frogs toward a king and another royal figure.
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    Description: In the clouds is the Son of Man with a sickle, speaking with one angel as another hovers below. On the earth one angel harvests grain and another grapes, while a man and a woman operate a wine press.
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    Description: In the clouds are four heads blowing the four winds away, as an angel flies overhead with a T square, and below are angels with swords. One angel with pen in hand draws a cross on the foreheads of humans, thus marking/sealing the 144,000.
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    Description: As Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac with his sword on the flaming altar nearby, an angel restrains him. A ram appears caught in a thicket nearby Akedah
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    Description: The angel presents a book to John, who kneels before him.
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    Description: Surrounded by seven angels blowing on trumpets, God stands behind the altar and with him is another angel with a golden censor in hand. The sun and moon and clouds are shown, a figure on a boat in a rough sea, and another angel below the altar calling out "Woe."
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    Description: An altar is shown surrounded by angels, and beneath it are the (souls of the) martyrs.
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    Description: A nativity scene with the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
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    Description: A rendering of the Nativity. Note the date 1523.
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    Description: A rendering of the nativity in Bethlehem. Note the date 1523 and the artist's monogram "VS"
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    Description: This familiar scene of the birth of Jesus shows the shepherds hastening to the manger scene
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    Description: This depiction of the last judgment adorned the title-page of Otto Brunfels' (1488-1534) work on the "Christian Regimen"." He had been a Carthusian monk and later a physician in Bern
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    Description: The angels and armies of God defeat the armies of the beast in the heavens, and the beast is thrown into the lake of fire.
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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 one angel puts the sickle to the grain to reap it, another harvests grapes, and another angel works the winepress. God is in the clouds above with sickle in hand.
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    Description: As the victorious Christ appears in the heavens, angels separate the saved from the lost, and the latter are hurried into the gaping mouth of Hell
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    Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about the coming of the Son of Man and the final judgment
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    Description: An angel flies overhead blowing a trumpet, and below him is the opening to the abyss with smoke billowing out; several locusts/scorpions are set around it and the bodies of humans lie around it as well.
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    Description: The fifth angel blows a trumpet, as smoke from the shaft of the bottomless pit rises. There is a fallen star, locusts with crowns, human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion tails. The angel of the bottomless pit appears in the smoke, and men lie dead around the mouth of the pit.
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    Description: The fifth seal (Rev. 6:9-11). Men and women are the martyrs below the altar, over which an angel stands.
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    Description: Matthew sits at a writing desk, as an angel hovers nearby.
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    Description: Angels empty the bowls of God's wrath on the earth, as the sun shines above and the beast (with the triple tiara) emits frogs from his mouth below.
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    Description: As Babylon is consumed by flames and merchants wail, two angels fly overhead. Open book.
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    Description: The city of Babylon burns, as one angel throws a millstone into the sea and another rejoices in midair. Merchants standing nearby are griefstricken.
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    Description: In response to King Hezekiah's prayer, the death angel flies above the Assyrian army and slays thousands of them with his sword. In the background one can see the walls of Jerusalem and the soldiers of Judah and Hezekiah atop them.
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    Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove
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    Description: The 144,000. Angels hovering with cross and sword hold back the four winds of the earth
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    Description: Jesus is tempted by the devil (a hairy figure with horns, a tail, and breasts) in the wilderness. In the foreground the devil presents Jesus with a loaf of bread (similarly-shaped stones are scattered on the ground nearby), and in the background there are fields and a city, with Jesus, the tempte...
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    Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities
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    Description: Matthew sits at a desk and writes in a book, and an angel appears nearby.
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    Description: Here the Evangelist Matthew writes his gospel account, receiving inspiratiion from the angel that appears outside his window.
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    Description: Luke the Evangelist sits at his writing desk, composing his gospel account. At his feet rests his attribute, the winged ox, and out the window is a crucifix with the angels.
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    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.
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    Description: The device of publisher Samuel Selfisch shows the prophet Samuel anointing David to be king of Israel
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    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 ...
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    Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594)
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    Description: The printer's device for Ioanne (Iehan) Petit, showing a leopard and alion on either side of a tree holding a shield with a crest, angels or putti above. Jean Petit (fl. 1492-1530)
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    Description: Printer's device of Amandus Farckall
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    Description: This historiated title-page border features cherubs and is dated 1519
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    Description: This historiated title-page border is dated 1519 and features the monogram of (perhaps) the artist responsible
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    Description: The prophet Obadiah sits on a mountaintop overlooking a city in the distance, and an angel appears in the cloud gesturing to the city below.
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    Description: The initial letter D shows Moses reading the law to Israel, with an angel overhead.
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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 vision of worship of God in heaven. God's throne is surrounded by angels, elders, seven torches, and four creatures full of eyes and with six wings.
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    Description: Jacob is asleep, with his head on a stone, and three angels climb a ladder from his side to God in the clouds of heaven.
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    Description: Jacob's ladder. Jacob is asleep on the ground, from which a ladder ascends to the figure of God in the clouds. One angel is ascending the ladder, while another is descending.
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    Description: The story of the patriarch Jacob’s dream of a ladder (or more likely, a stairway) from earth to heaven (Genesis 28) forms the basis for this illustration, perhaps by Cranach. It is one of several full-page woodcuts by the famous artist that were prepared for Luther’s translation of the Old Testam...
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    Description: The dragon/serpent/Satan/devil is chained by an angel and forced into a burning pit. The angel wears a cross on his head and carries a key.
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    Description: Historiated title-page modeled after 116, a typical work of Hans Springinklee.
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    Description: This playful title-page border is a copy of that done by the monogrammist "H' (see Johannes Luther, Titeleinfassungen, 68 and 68c)
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    Description: Historiated title-page border. Attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder
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    Description: This historiated title-page border features the Electoral arms of Saxony at the head of the page and the arms of the city of Wittenberg at the foot
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    Description: Historiated title-page border From the Master of Jacob's Ladder, a pupil of Georg Lemberger
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    Description: Historiated title-page border with columns cherubs angels garland musical instruments tamborine lyre trumpet men towing a boat sea creature
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    Description: Historiated title-page border with the Luther Rose, attributed to the 'Master of Jacob's Ladder,' the so-called 'Lemberger-Double'
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    Description: Historiated title-page border Master of the Zackenblätter = Monogrammist MB; related artistically to J. Luther 100, which has also been ascribed to this artist; some relation also to Dürer and Graf
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    Description: Historiated title-page border with the printer's device of Friedrich Peypus (1485-1534)
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    Description: Historiated title-page border From the Master of Jacob's Ladder, a pupil of Georg Lemberger.
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    Description: This historiated title-page border has a fool on the left column and a satyr on the right. The artist is Urs Graf (c. 1485 - c. 1527), and his monogram is on a tablet at the left
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    Description: This historiated title-page border features cherubs, mermaids, and dolphins
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    Description: The armies of heaven defeat the armies of the beast. Armored figures are shown riding horses with armor; an angel flies overhead, and the seven-headed beast falls below into flames.
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    Description: Tobit's son, Tobiah, accompanied by his dog and an angel, return home so that he can anoint Tobit's eyes with salve from the fish. His mother Anna looks on.
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    Description: The prophet Habakkuk is shown waving to reapers in the field as he walks to them with the bread and stew the he has prepared to feed them. An angel is about to catch him up into the air and take him and his food to Daniel.
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    Description: Daniel bows on the ground in prayer before an angel, while in the background is a walled city (Susa) with a figure standing over the gate and pointing toward three rams and a goat coming down from the clouds.
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    Description: Daniel stands in prayer in the lions' den, flanked by two lions, as an angel flies overhead holding another (bearded) human figure with a jar in hand
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    Description: Daniel is in the lions' den, and an angel appears overhead, holding a man up by his hair.
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    Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial.
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    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: From Lucas Cranach, the Elder.
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    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
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    Description: An angel instructs Tobiah to retrieve the fish for medicinal purposes. Tobiah's dog stands nearby.
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    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