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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: Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant posits one servant receiving forgiveness of a great debt from his master, but then this servant refuses to forgive a fellow servant a much smaller debt -
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: This engraving is the third in a series of twelve illustrating the consecration of a new bishop: the prostration before the altar. The bishop-elect lies fully prostrate on the floor before the altar, while the chief consecrating bishop and his assistant bishops kneel and recite a litany. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates one aspect of ordination to the priesthood: the laying on of hands. The bishop stands and lays his hands in turn on the head of each man being ordained. The ordainees all kneel wearing the priestly vestments of alb and stole and carry the chasuble over one arm. In th... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates ordination to the minor order of acolyte, the fourth of seven ordinations culminating in full priesthood. Seated on his throne and surrounded by attendant priests, the bishop offers a candle in an elaborate holder to the ordainee kneeling before him -
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 illustrates an aspect of the sacrament of priestly ordination. Seated on his throne, the bishop places an article of clothing (the superpelliceum) over the shoulders of the ordainee, who kneels before him as attendant priests look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut derives from Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), and is taken from the last printed leaf of the third Wittenberg printing of On Good Works, one of Luther’s most important early treatises. It shows the Apostle John, Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and a group of three sold... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This richly illustrated title-page border includes exotic animals such as an elephant and a camel, as well as exotic human figures, some perhaps engaged in a hunt