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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An ornamental title-page border frames St. Francis receiving the stigmata with another figure--possibly Brother Leo--looking on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: When the Philistine soldiers defeat Israel, King Saul and his armor-bearer fall on their swords and die. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth of ten illustrating the blessing and coronation of a king. The king kneels before the presiding bishop. One of the priest-assistants brings the king’s sword from the altar and gives it to the bishop, who then presents it to the king -
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: The table with the Bread of the Presence -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the fifth in a series of nine illustrating the blessing of a monk as an abbot. The abbot, wearing alb and chasuble, kneels before the presiding bishop who lays his hands on the abbot’s head to bless him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image illustrates a Lutheran Church service, in which the preacher addresses his congregation. An infant is being baptized in a font on one side and the Eucharist being distributed on the other -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, or his son, Hans Cranach -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Gedaliah, appointed governor of Judah by the Babylonian king, is slain with his Jewish associates and Babylonian soldiers by Ishmael and his company. All are depicted in armor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches the crowds on the shore from a boat, and in the background is another boat where Jesus is seated and instructs men as they pull in their nets -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In Luke 14, Jesus visits the home of a Pharisee and delivers instruction about humility in the selection of banquet seating -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Nicodemus approaches Jesus at night, while others are asleep on a table nearby, and the content of Jesus' remarks to Nicodemus are portrayed in a baptismal (effusion) scene in the background, which includes the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Martin Lechler (d. 1594) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon Melanchthon's motto is from Rom 8:31 and reads, "Si deus pro nobis quis contra nos?" ("If God is for us, who is against us?"). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the nativity with cherubs attending to the newborn Christ child. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The wise woman of Tekoah approaches David with her request. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Satan tempts Jesus at the end of Jesus' fast in the wilderness -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: David defeated the soldiers of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, and ruined his chariots and hamstrung his horses. Clubs, pikes, shields. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As a man sows seed in a field in the background, Jesus teaches his disciples the Parable of the Sower -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus is shown teaching his disciples the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard, scenes from the parable fill the surrounding space -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant, the king forgives his servant's debt (left), but the servant does not forgive his fellow servant's plea for leniency (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An official of Capernaum asks Jesus to come heal his son who was near death -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus stands in the foreground teaching the parable of the wedding banquet, in the background the army of the king assaults the city of those who ignored the royal banquet invitation -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus and their offering in the Temple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus heals a paralytic and pronounces his sins forgiven, teachers of the law gather and condemn him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus teaches his disciples to remove the beam from their own eyes before attempting to remove the speck in another's -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This portrait of Martin Luther is framed by four scenes illustrating the story of human sin and redemption -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: While Jesus dines in the home of a Pharisee, a sinful woman came and anointed Jesus' head with oil -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mary, the future mother of Jesus, visits her pregnant kinswoman, Elizabeth -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border shows the symbols for the four Gospels in the corners, the Apostles Peter and Paul at the top and bottom, and the four "Great Western Fathers" of the church along the edges: Pope Gregory I, Cardinal Jerome, Bishop Ambrose, and Bishop Augustine -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This playful title-border features putti and a variety of animals, birds, and musical instruments -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This playful title-page border is a copy of that done by the monogrammist "H' (see Johannes Luther, Titeleinfassungen, 68 and 68c) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Pharisees condemn Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners, because he was found dining at the house of Matthew, the tax collector -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus meets the funeral procession coming out of the city of Nain and raises from the dead the widow of Nain's son -
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 Jesus' parable of the great banquet, one of those invited declines, since he has just bought five yoke of oxen -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus teaching his disciples, as the Pharisees convene in the background (left), introduces Jesus' teaching on paying taxes to Caesar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With a city and the soldiers and wagons of Philistia in the background, the young David swings his sling with a stone toward Goliath, who stands with sword and lance and magnificent armor. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's letter to the Galatians, this engraving shows the apostle with his attribute the sword (here, two swords) passing along a letter to a messenger (note his equipment for his journey: hat, sword, and shoes). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mark the Evangelist sits at a writing table composing his gospel account, as the Holy Spirit appears outside the window in the form of a dove. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Given its placement in this New Testament, the Apostle Paul is shown writing a letter to Timothy. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating Paul's correspondence with the Corinthian church, here the Apostle Paul receives (or sends?) a letter from a richly dressed emissary of the church. The apostle has his typical attribute, the sword, and the church's messenger, hat in hand, passes along to Paul a sealed envelope. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John sits in a pastoral setting with book in hand and his attribute, the eagle, nearby, as he looks upward at a vision of Jesus in the clouds -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s device of Nicolaus Diuitus, a Parisian printer -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Hermann V, von Wied (d.1552) adorned the title-page of a history recounting his activities as the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne and an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The arms of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V adorned the title-page of the account of the surrender of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, to him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This wood-engraving of the siege of a city, complete with cannons and assault ladders, adorned the title page of Ein vermanlied, a pro-Lutheran war song from the time of the Schmalkald War (1546-1547) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion portrait of Martin Luther (1483-1546) shows the mature reformer -
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) -
Medallion Portraits of Luther, the Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony, and Melanchthon
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Medallion portraits of Martin Luther, Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous of Saxony and Philipp Melanchthon.