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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. The bishop, seated under a tent, is speaking to the architect of the building while priests stand nearby with a processional cross and lit candles -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: God in the form of a king speaks the world into being -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. Having placed the stone in the ground, the bishop sprinkles the area with the blessed water once again -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Crucifixion with Open Tomb. The wood-engraving (on t.p.) has the monogram of H. Schäufelein, according to WA. Jesus cross prayer disciple -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus, with the Apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus standing nearby, was included in a 1519 treatise by Luther on the worthy reception of the Eucharist. A skull is at the foot of the cross (alluding to the biblical references to Golgotha [the place of the ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of five illustrating the blessing and laying the first stone of a new church building. Standing in the place where the church will be built, the bishop blesses salt and water -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Andrew stands alongside the diagonal cross with book in hand, while in the background is depicted his own martrydom by crucifixion. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is on the upper left end of the cross. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: An angel is in midair with an open book. Near it are two other angels and the symbols of the four gospels (eagle, bull, winged lion, and human figure), and above the all is a lamb with a cross-staff. Below this heavenly scene is the landscape of the earth with its cities, many of which are in ruins. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The 144,000. Angels hovering with cross and sword hold back the four winds of the earth