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  • 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
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    Description: The Luther Rose served as the reformer's signet
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    Description: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background
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    Description: The initial letter V shows Moses with the tablets of the law. He looks up at a serpent lifted on a wooden cross in the wilderness. Some Israelites are lying on the ground striken with snake bites, as others look up prayerfully at the serpent.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. While the builders look on, the bishop begins to lower the first stone of the new church building, marked with a cross, into a trough already dug in the ground
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Taken from the printing of an early and very popular sermon by Luther on indulgences and grace, this woodcut shows Jesus being taken down from the cross by Mary the mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Apostle John. This illustration is reminiscent of the “Man of Sorrows” image shown lat...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. A large cross has been fixed in the ground where the new church will stand. Mixing the salt he has just blessed in the water, the bishop sprinkles the blessed water on the ground a...
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    Description: With the inscription “INRI” (“Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum “ = “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”) at the head of the cross, this image shows Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Joseph of Arimathea taking the body of Jesus down from the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Taken from a sermon by Martin Luther on the suffering of Christ, this woodcut shows Jesus on the cross with his tomb before him and (perhaps) the Apostle John (or another disciple) kneeling in prayer or worship before him. In the lower right corner is the monogram of Hans Schäufelein (which incor...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on
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    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: For this image: The text around the woodcut is taken from Galatians 6:14. “Far be it from me that I should boast, except in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”
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    Description: A rendering of the Pope with an audience
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Appearing on the title page of this volume by the Jewish convert to Christianity, Johannes Pfefferkorn, this engraving of the crucifixion shows Jesus’ blood flowing from his wounds into a font. Mary the mother of Jesus shelters the faithful on the left, while the pope (note the triple tiara and t...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the seventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the altar with holy water he has taken in his hand from the aspersorium
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    Description: The bishop is laying the cross on the chest of a soldier dressed in armor who is about to set out for the Holy Land. Other soldiers await their turn
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As one of his priest-assistants kneels before him holding the sword, the bishop blesses it with a prayer and holy water
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    Description: This engraving is the second of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. After blessing it with holy water, the bishop places a hairshirt onto the penitents
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The bishop blesses a suit of armor that is laid out on a table
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). The bishop first blesses some of the ingredients that will be used during the ceremony of consecration: vessels containing water with salt, ashes and wine
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). Taking some of the blessed water in his hand, the bishop makes the sign of the cross in the middle of the altar
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    Description: This engraving is the first of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. Five crosses stand in the cemetery about to be consecrated: one in the center and one at the edge of the cemetery in the front, back and two sides of the cross in the center. Each has a small stand at its foot containing...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. The bishop does the same thing at the four outer crosses as he had done at the center. He blesses each cross with incense from the thurible and then places a lit candle at the top of the vertical post and two more candl...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This is the first of two engravings illustrating the blessing of a new cross for a church. The bishop blesses the cross with incense and holy water
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    Description: The priestly vestments for use in a new church are laid out on a table. The bishop blesses all of them at once
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the seventh of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. Five special candles made in the form of a cross are placed on the altar, in the middle and in the four corners. The bishop lights the four tips...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eighth of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. With his right hand, the bishop makes the sign of the cross with chrism on the front of the altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the third of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Upon reaching the door of the church, the bishop draws a cross on the lower part of the door with his crozier
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. After a priest makes a cross with ashes from the four corners of the church to the center. The bishop then draws with his crozier the Greek alphabet along the arm of the cross beginning at the angl...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Reaching the door of the church, the bishop knocks on the door with his crozier and asks to be admitted with the words of Psalm 24: “Let the king of glory enter.” A deacon inside the church asks: “...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the twelfth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop, seated on a throne before the doors of the church, gives a brief sermon to the assistant priests and the people gathered there
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eleventh of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and the other priests march in procession. The bishop is under a canopy carrying the stone containing relics under a cloth. This stone will eventually be set into the altar and will co...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the eighth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop blesses the new altar by sprinkling it with holy water taken from an aspersorium using a hyssop branch as an aspergillum
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    Description: This engraving is the seventeenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop and two priest assistants mount a rolling staircase in order to bless twelve crosses fixed to the walls of the church
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    Description: This engraving is the tenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop circles the church three times in all, blessing the interior with holy water from the aspersorium. Each time he begins the circle in a different direction: first to the right, then down t...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the new altar with blessed water and holy oil. He makes the sign of the cross with the oil in the middle of the altar and in each of the four corners corresponding to the ...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop consecrates the altar with incense, swinging the censer in the sign of the cross over its middle and four corners
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fifth of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. With his right hand, the bishop makes five crosses on the surface of the altar using holy oil, first in the middle and then in the four corners
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the fourth of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop circles the altar, consecrating it with incense both above and below
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the first of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop stands at a table and blesses the water, salt, ashes and wine that will be used in the ritual of consecration
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the second of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop stands before the altar and, with his right hand, takes some of the blessed water and makes a sign of the cross with it in the middle o...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving depicts the bishop as he blesses the accoutrements of the altar and church, such as various vessels, a censer and cloths for the altar
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    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: Printer’s device of Vincenzo Vaugris (Venice)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    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.
  • 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: This engraving is the third of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop circles the altar, sprinkling it with water, the ashes and the blessed wine. For this purpose, he uses sprigs of the herb hyssop that h...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Once again, the bishop sanctifies the altar by making the sign of the cross on it with holy oil in several places, including the top and foundation of the altar
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    Description: This engraving is the thirteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. A hole has been cut in the new altar into which the altar stone, containing relics of several saints, will be placed. The bishop consecrates the angles of the depression with holy oil and then ...