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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Bear
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible with the Tetragrammaton (Yahweh) inscribed -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Jacob Bährwald (fl. 1539-1570) suggests a wordplay on the two elements of the German surname: Bähr (Bär = bear) and Wald (forest)