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  • 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: 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...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus and a Jewish cleric stand in the Temple, on opposite sides of two men about to stone a woman taken in adultery
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As his disciples stand nearby, Jesus stands before the Canaanite woman (from the region of Tyre and Sidon) who beseeches him to exorcize the demon that possess her daughter
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving illustrates a queen travelling with her ladies-in-waiting and attendant men and soldiers
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A ruler (Jairus, according to Luke) kneels before Jesus to ask him to heal his daughter, while a woman (afflicted with an issue of blood for many years) touches the hem of Jesus' garment from behind, as the disciples look on
  • 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: Jesus teaches his disciples, and a woman kneels before him, perhaps a representation of the one who cries out to Jesus, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you" (Luke 11:27)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing of an abbess. As the Offertory of the Mass begins, the new abbess comes before the bishop once again with her women companions and kneels before him in order to kiss his hand. When she returns to her place, the Mass proceeds