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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: 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: 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: A generic image of a prophet is used here to represent Baruch -
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: 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: 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 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: A woman with a crown on he head sits at a desk on which there is an open book. Vessels are on the shelf nearby -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Taken from the title page of an early sixteenth-century Catholic work on the Mass, this woodcut depicts a congregant kneeling as the priest per-forms the eucharistic service. Note the four woodcut border panels that have been used rather crudely to frame the central engraving -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Paul sits at a desk with an open book before him. Another book is in one hand,a sword in the other -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border depicts a monk and a nun on either side and the Green Man of pagan and Christian lore below. Attributed to the workshop of Lucas Cranach, the Elder -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the Apostles Peter and Paul and the symbols of the four Evangelists. The Electoral arms of Saxony, the date 1522, and the monogram of the printer (IG = Johann Grunenberg) are at the base. It is a free imitation of a larger title-page border by Urs Graf -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The prophet Isaiah sits at his desk with a book before him (and others visible in the body of the desk) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jehudi reads to King Jehoiakim and his advisers the book of prophecies, dictated by Jeremiah to Baruch, and then the king has the pages burned in the fireplace nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jerome, with the hat of a cardinal, sits in his study at a deskwrites in a book. Other books are on the deskshelves nearby,a lion is at his feet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jonah sits in the posture of prayer with a book on the ground before him, a tree/vine shading him, and Ninevah visible in the distance. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King David sits on his throne with a harp beside him a book in hand