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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...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As one angel puts the sickle to the grain to reap it, another harvests grapes, and another angel works the winepress. God is in the clouds above with sickle in hand.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jacob is asleep, with his head on a stone, and three angels climb a ladder from his side to God in the clouds of heaven.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: God gives the tablets of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A winged woman stands on the moon in the posture of prayer, with a crown of twelve stars on her hand. Above her two angels carry a baby on a cloth stretched between them. Above all is visible God and the ark in the clouds. A beast with seven heads, attacked by angels with swords and spears, conf...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As God appears behind an altar with an angel on either side (one with a trumpet), there appears below four horsemen and several angels slaying humans.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Surrounded by seven angels blowing on trumpets, God stands behind the altar and with him is another angel with a golden censor in hand. The sun and moon and clouds are shown, a figure on a boat in a rough sea, and another angel below the altar calling out "Woe."
  • 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: God in the form of a king speaks the world into being
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On the right, God gives two stone tablets to Moses from a burning bush,on the left, Moses presents the tablets to the people of Israel.