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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus stands before the disciples and teaches them
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus tells two disciples the Parable of the Sower; in the background is a city and a plowed field with the devil passing through it scattering weed seed
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    Description: Illustrating a sermon on John 20, this woodcut shows the resurrected Jesus with his disciples and Thomas placing his hand in the wound in Jesus’ side (cf. vv. 26-29).
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    Description: Here the resurrected Jesus appears to the eleven in Jerusalem. In the background he first appears to the disciples, and then in the foreground he sits at table to eat
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    Description: In this woodcut the resurrected Jesus walks between two of his disciples on their way to the village of Emmaus
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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: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background
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    Description: Jesus and a Jewish cleric stand in the Temple, on opposite sides of two men about to stone a woman taken in adultery
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    Description: As Jesus and three disciples speak with the child, loaves and fish in hand, in the background Jesus' disciples distribute food to the crowds
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: In this depiction of an exorcism by Jesus, Satan departs the man in a vapor from his mouth
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    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: 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: Jesus teaches his disciples about the signs that will precede the End and notes its doom for nursing mothers (left)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus listens to a ruler's request that he raise the man's daughter from the dead (left), and then goes in response. Along the way a woman approaches him from behind, touches his garment, and is healed of her bleeding (right)
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    Description: Jesus is shown delivering the Sermon on the Mount
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: While Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, three of the disciples slumber
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This simple title-border includes the double-eagle of the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor the place of publication (Wittenberg) is fictitious (it was in fact published in Strasbourg by Matthias Schuerer's heirs)
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    Description: This representation of a monk in conversation with a knight was printed on the title-page of Luther's lettr to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the new General of the Teutonic Knights, in which he argues against celibacy being required of members of military orders
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in full form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME ("Do not become proud but stand in awe." Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20
  • 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)