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  • 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 the old Pharaoh, who knew and favored Joseph is laid by his attendants in the tomb, a new Pharaoh with crown and scepter receives his subjects from a balcony.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Joseph is led away to prison by two men as Potiphar, with sword and crown, and his wife stand looking on.
  • 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: John's vision of the four horsemen: one with a crown and bow and arrow, another with a sword, another with scales, and the last as a skeleton with pitchfork. Human forms are slain before them.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Solomon sits on his throne, scepter in hand and an advisor nearby, a messenger kneels before him with a letter.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Bathsheba pleads with the aged King David on behalf of her son Solomon.
  • 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: A rendering of David and Goliath
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe...