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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Two armies engaged in battle. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Christological interpretation of Isaiah 11: As Jesse, the father of David, lies on the ground, from his side grows up a tree at whose center is the Madonna and child -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Canaanite woman in the region of Tyre and Sidon kneels before Jesus, requesting that he heal her daughter -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As two men stand on the road leading to a great, walled city, they see overhead in the clouds the cavalries of two armies doing battle -
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: As Jesus sits at the dinner table with Simon the Pharisee, a woman kneels before Jesus and anoints his feet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Aaron appears in priestly garments with an incense burner in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Moses stands before the Ark of the Covenant, and sees that the rod/staff of Aaron has blossomed/sprouted. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: With his wife Sarah standing inside the house nearby, Abraham kneels to welcome three strangers to his home. Birds fly over head. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Initial Letter A shows death or mortality in the figure of a skeleton, holding an hourglass in one hand and a spear in the other and threatening a man who sits at a well-stocked table. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border Title border by Jörg Breu, the Elder (ca. 1480-1537) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Adam and Eve stand arm in arm in the Garden of Eden, Eve receives fruit from the serpent -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Adam and Eve appear with the serpent in the Garden of Eden -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Adam and Eve are shown in the Garden of Eden; nearby is the serpent and a tree loaded with fruit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Ahaz measures the altar in Damascus, as a priest sets fire to the wood and the lamb on the altar. In the background captives are led out of Damascus by the Assyrian soldiers of Tiglath-Pileser. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The outer components of the altar set around the inner grate -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Amos sits and reads from a book to a Jewish audience in a synagogue. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Jesus exorcises a demon from a man who was mute -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel instructs Tobiah to retrieve the fish for medicinal purposes. Tobiah's dog stands nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Mary and Jesus sleep, Gabriel comes to Joseph to warn him to flee to Egypt with his family in order to escape Herod's plot to slay infant Jewish males -
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: This title-page woodcut features caricatures of six Roman Catholics: Johann Eck (with fool's cap), Girolamo Aleandro (as lion), Augustin von Alveld (as donkey), Dam (as pig), Thomas Murner (as cat) and Hieronymus Emser (as goat) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The angel Gabriel, carrying a staff with the banner reading "Plene gracia ave," announces to Mary that she will give birth to a son, as God looks on from above and the Holy Spirit descends on her as a dove -
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: Given its placement in this New Testament, the Apostle Paul is shown writing a letter to Timothy. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of a column is related to 1 Kings -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From Lucas Cranach, the Elder. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border with putti and crucifix. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Architectural title-page border, with putti at the top and Jesus Christ driving the money-changers out of the Temple, overturning their table in the process. -
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: Title page for 'Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. iussu restitutum atque editum' (Rome, 1595), a book describing rites performed by Roman Catholic bishops. It was also called 'Liber Sacramentorum,' 'Liber Officialis,' 'Liber Pontificalis,' etc. The engravings of the work in the Digi... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the ark of the covenant and the altar for the burnt offerings -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coat of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (1503-1554). -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The coats of arms of Elector John Frederick of Saxony (left) and Landgrave Philip of Hesse (right) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the disciples gather around the mount of ascension, Jesus goes up into the clouds and only his footprints are left. This engraving was offered as an illustration of Mark 16 (v. 19) -
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: A rendering of the Pope with an audience -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Baptism of Jesus by John, -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is baptised by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Standing in the Jordan River in the posture of prayer, Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist, as God looks on from above and the Holy Spirit descends as a dove -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the mother and father stand beside the baptismal font in a church, a Roman Catholic priest baptizes an infant -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A generic image of a prophet is used here to represent Baruch -
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: Judas Maccabeus leads the Jewish army to victory in a battle against Apollonius and the gentiles. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Ark of the Covenant is carried on poles by Joshua's army around the city of Jericho, as Israelite trumpets are blown. The city begins to crumble in the distance -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The decapitated body of John the Baptist and the soldier sheathing his sword are in the foreground, while John's head is carried on a platter to the table where Herod the tetrarch and his consort Herodias are seated at table in the rear -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Outside Jerusalem Jesus confronts his opponents, with the city and the cross visible in the background -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In a workshop with large table and furnace two craftsmen, Bezalel and Oholiab, fashion the bowls and other utensils to be used in the Israelite Temple/tabernacle cult with hammer and anvil.