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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From the first German printing of Exsurge Domine, the bull issued by Pope Leo X (1513-1521) that threatened Luther with excommunication. The papal keys flank the papal triple tiara. The document was translated and published by Georg Spalatin, who was in the diplomatic service of Frederick the Wis... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of King David playing the harp. God is rendered in the upper left-hand corner in the clouds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the third of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop circles the altar, sprinkling it with water, the ashes and the blessed wine. For this purpose, he uses sprigs of the herb hyssop that h... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. Once again, the bishop sanctifies the altar by making the sign of the cross on it with holy oil in several places, including the top and foundation of the altar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the thirteenth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. A hole has been cut in the new altar into which the altar stone, containing relics of several saints, will be placed. The bishop consecrates the angles of the depression with holy oil and then ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the ninth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop goes around the interior of the church blessing it with holy water which he takes from the aspersorium with a branch of hyssop that he uses as an aspergillum -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop first circles the new church on the outside, sprinkling holy water as he goes -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of eighteen illustrating the dedication or consecration of a church. The bishop stands before a table on which stand vessels filled with salt, ashes and water and blesses them -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the eighth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. At the conclusion of the Offertory, the virgins kneel before the bishop with lighted candles in their hands -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of nine illustrating the blessing and consecration of a virgin. The bishop places a ring on the right hand of each nun, telling her that she is now the spouse of Jesus Christ