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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The initial letter "T" shows Tobit on a chair pointing to his eye as birds perch overhead in the rafters and defecate in his eyes. Before him stands Anna, his wife, with hands folded in prayer, as Tobiah, his son, points to him. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The initial letter F shows a military engagement with several soldiers attacking others with their swords, suggesting Felix's oppressive rule of Judea. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Darius conducts the competition among his Jewish pages about wisdom. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Queen Esther kneels before the throne of King Xerxes and touches the tip of his scepter, as the royal attendants stand around them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a fire blazes on an altar outside with slaughtered lambs/sheep at its base, and priestly figures place loaves of bread on the altar, inside a group of men stand about a table and eat the Passover with their staffs in hand. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the Jewish exiles to Babylon walk along the road with their baggage on their backs and on their pack animals, one can see the walls of Jerusalem in the distance and the scaffolding about its Temple. Also used to illustrate the return of Judas Maccabeus and his troops with their plunder from th... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the crest of the printer (Melchoir Lotter, the Younger) at the foot. It has been attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder, or to his workshop -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In response to King Hezekiah's prayer, the death angel flies above the Assyrian army and slays thousands of them with his sword. In the background one can see the walls of Jerusalem and the soldiers of Judah and Hezekiah atop them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features the arms of the city of Wittenberg at the head and the crest of the printer (Melchoir Lotter, the Younger) at the foot. It has been attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border. Attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder