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  • 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)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus j...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The crucifixion of Jesus dominates this representation of the Christian Trinity
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus teaches the crowds from his place on a hill
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Above the circle of creation with its concentric rings of angels, God sits enthroned. At the center is the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God is confronted by Satan, while Job's wife stands before her naked afflicted husband
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The prophet Elijah stands by as the fire of God comes down from heaven and consumes a Samarian captain and his fifty men. The King of Samaria watches from his sickbed
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God lays Moses in a tomb, as two angels gather to assist in the burial.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Historiated title-page border Title border by Jörg Breu, the Elder (ca. 1480-1537)
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: From the 'Zürich Bible' and based on the sketches of Hans Holbein, the Younger (1497/98-1543), this illustration of the creation story in Genesis 2 shows Eve rising in the posture of prayer from the side of the sleeping Adam, as God stands alongside giving the sign of blessing. Several of the ani...