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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As his disciples stand nearby, Jesus stands before the Canaanite woman (from the region of Tyre and Sidon) who beseeches him to exorcize the demon that possess her daughter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is tempted by the devil (a hairy figure with horns, a tail, and breasts) in the wilderness. In the foreground the devil presents Jesus with a loaf of bread (similarly-shaped stones are scattered on the ground nearby), and in the background there are fields and a city, with Jesus, the tempte... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples about the signs that will precede the End and notes its doom for nursing mothers (left) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus listens to a ruler's request that he raise the man's daughter from the dead (left), and then goes in response. Along the way a woman approaches him from behind, touches his garment, and is healed of her bleeding (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is shown delivering the Sermon on the Mount -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: While Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, three of the disciples slumber -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This simple title-border includes the double-eagle of the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor the place of publication (Wittenberg) is fictitious (it was in fact published in Strasbourg by Matthias Schuerer's heirs) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This representation of a monk in conversation with a knight was printed on the title-page of Luther's lettr to Albrecht von Brandenburg, the new General of the Teutonic Knights, in which he argues against celibacy being required of members of military orders -
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: 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)