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Woodcuts from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe's publisher, John Day, appears in profile in this portrait device, along with a colophon. The cartouche surrounding him reads, "Liefe is deathe and death is liefe: Aetatis suae: XXXX." ["Life is death and death is life: in the 40th year of his life"]. Although Day includes this woodcut in la... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Two soldiers each drag a man along the ground on his back. The men are bound with rope. The soldier in the foreground raises his rope above his head with his right hand and pulls the Christian by the wrists, while the Christian looks upward. A second soldier drags a second man by the ankles, whil... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Foxe replaces the traditional Saints' calendar with this iconoclastic calendar, which celebrates the deaths of Protestant and proto-Protestant martyrs. He includes columns for the year and day of each martyr's death. The calendar is printed in red and black ink and appears only in the first (1563... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: The cartouche surrounding these crowned Arms contains the motto of the Order of the Garter and English Arms, "Honi soit qui mal y pence" ["Shame to him who thinks evil of it"]. "Vivat Re[gina]." ["Long live the queen"] in flag above; "E.R." ["Elizabetha Regina" / "Elizabeth, queen"] flanking bes... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: In this printing device owned by Foxe's publisher, John Day, a richly dressed man speaks to another man and gestures downward with his right hand toward a skeleton. The skeleton lies on top of a casket, which is located outdoors before a city and harbor. The man speaks a subordinate clause ("Et s... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Leading a prison Bible study, Smith sits on a stool and places his right hand on an open Bible. A man behind Smith folds his hands in prayer, while Smith instructs four others who share the cell with him. Among his audience, one holds an open Bible and one carries a Bible in his left hand. A fift... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: This map of England displays rivers and the political division of the country among seven Saxon kingdoms plus Scotland, Wales, and Gaul. Dotted lines designate territorial boundaries. Xylographic type identifies each kingdom on the woodcut in Latin (L) and Anglo-Saxon (AS) script, and the woodcut...