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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This ornate title-page border adorns a Lutheran hymnal and illustrates the technique of using four separate panels for the composition. In his rhurry, the printer placed the bottom panel upside-down and omitted an 'x' in the date of publication (1514 instead of 1524)
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus juxtaposed over against the bronze serpent that Moses lifted up in the wilderness to save all who gazed upon it from death by serpent bites (see Num. 21:4-9; John 3:14-16). The woman in the central position may be Mary Magdalene
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The crucifixion of Jesus dominates this representation of the Christian Trinity
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus teaches the crowds from his place on a hill
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Above the circle of creation with its concentric rings of angels, God sits enthroned. At the center is the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God is confronted by Satan, while Job's wife stands before her naked afflicted husband
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The prophet Elijah stands by as the fire of God comes down from heaven and consumes a Samarian captain and his fifty men. The King of Samaria watches from his sickbed
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial.
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border Title border by Jörg Breu, the Elder (ca. 1480-1537)
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    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: From the 'Zürich Bible' and based on the sketches of Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497/98-1543), this illustration of the creation story in Genesis 2 shows Eve rising in the posture of prayer from the side of the sleeping Adam, as God stands alongside giving the sign of blessing. Several of the animals, as well as the sun, have human faces, and trouble lurks from the bottom left-hand corner.