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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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) gives the motto in full form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE SED TIME ("Do not become proud but stand in awe." Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Peter Apian (1495-1552) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Paul Fagius (1504-1549) shows a stork eating frogs, perhaps suggesting a wordplay on the printer's surname (Grk phagein = "to eat") -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Oudin Petit (d. 1572) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Nicolaus Diuitus, a Parisian printer -
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: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Lazarus Schürer (fl. 1519-1521) was the printer for this edition of Erasmus’ Latin collection of similitudes and comparisons, metaphors, allusions, and poetical and biblical allegories. The device derives from that used by Matthias Schürer (fl. ca. 1508-1520) and may have been designed by Hans We... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Juan de Cánova (fl. 1555-1568) -
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 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: Printer's device of Johann Varnier Johann Varnier used the printer’s device of Hans Varnier, which featured the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Johann Gymnich I (d. 1544) was designed by Anton Woensam of Worms -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Joannes Oporinus (1507-1568) alludes to the myth of the musician Arion’s rescue from drowning by a dolphin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Ioanne (Iehan) Petit, showing a leopard and alion on either side of a tree holding a shield with a crest, angels or putti above. Jean Petit (fl. 1492-1530) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A flaming sword is featured in the printer's device of Jean Gerard, a printer in Geneva -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's Device of Jean Crespin (d. 1572) -
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) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Henri Estienne (1531-1598) 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: The printer’s device of Heinrich Petri (1508-1579) is based on that of his father, Adam Petri, and involves a wordplay on the family name (petrus = stone). Adam, Heinrich, and Sebastian Petri used altogether 27 different printer's devices, and 18 of these were variants of the design illustrated ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the printer’s device of Hans Lufft (1495-1584), two hands grasp a sword with a heart on its tip, and two serpents wrap themselves around the sword -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the printer’s device of Hans Lufft (1495-1584), two hands grasp a sword with a heart on its tip, and two serpents wrap themselves around the sword -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Guillaume Cavellat (d. 1576 or 7) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The portrait of Georg Rhaw also served as this Wittenberg printer's device -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Franz Behem (ca. 1500-1582) develops an ancient Christian symbol of a mother pelican feeding her young. Hans Schäufelein (ca. 1480 - ca. 1539) is regarded as the artist responsible for the design -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Eucharius Cervicornus (fl. 1516-1547) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device for Denys Roce (fl. 1490-1517) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Crato Mylius (1503-1547) or Krafft Müller (German form of his name) features the Roman goddess Ceres. It was designed by Heinrich Vogtherr, the Elder -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Crato Mylius (1503-1547) or Krafft Müller (German form of his name), designed by Heinrich Vogtherr, the Elder. The lion symbolizes strength, as does Samson (shown on the shield with the jawbone of an ass), and the pillar, fortitude--obvious allusions to his first name (Ger. Kr... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device for Christopher Plantin (1520-1589) The motto on the device reads, "labore et constantia" ("labor and tenacity"). Plantin explained about the device that "the outer point of the pair of compases … represents work and the centre point constancy" (Davies, Devices, p. 678) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). portal dated 1521 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). The engraving is by Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein, the Younger -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog). The engraving is by Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1527. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Chrestien Wechel (1495-1554), father of printer Andreas Wechel, features Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology that rose into the heavens to become a constellation of stars -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Arnold Birckmann (fl. 1530-1542) used various printer's devices, but most made use of a hen standing before a birch tree (=Birke) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Antonio Blado (1490-1567) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Andreas Wechel (d. 1581) features Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology that rose into the heavens to become a constellation of stars -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Andreas Cratander (d. 1540) shows Occasio, the goddess of chance, against an Alpine landscape, standing on an orb and with a razor lifted high. By monogrammist H.F. (= Hans Franck [d.1522]?)