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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Johannes Crato (d. 1578) shows Samuel anointing David with oil from a ram's horn, as David kneels in prayer before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The device of publisher Samuel Selfisch shows the prophet Samuel anointing David to be king of Israel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a horn of oil the prophet Samuel anoints young David to become Israel’s next king (1 Samuel 16). One of David’s attributes, the harp, rests on the ground beside him. The woodcut serves as a printer’s device for Samuel Selfisch (or, Seelfisch) of Wittenberg or of Gabriel Schnellboltz (cf. W.L... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The text along the top of the medallion is the Latin version of God's proclamation to Peter, James, and John, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him" (RSV). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Wolfgang Köpfel (d. 1554?) shows the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above two serpents grasping a stone block, perhaps serving as the headstone (= cornerstone) of a building, and so serving as a wordplay on the printer’s name (Kopf = head) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Vincenzo Vaugris (Venice) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Thomas Anshelm Badensis (note the monogram) includes the Hebrew and Greek forms of "Jesus." Here it occurs on the last leaf of the 1518 edition of the great sixteenth-century Christian Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin’s, work on Hebrew accentuation and orthography (dedicated to ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Attached to the folio printing of Gaguin’s work on the history of France is the printer’s device of Thielman Kerver (d. 1522). As was often the case, this device incorporates mythological elements (the two unicorns), elaborate flora (an oak tree occupies the central space), and a family crest -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20