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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) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s mark for Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 1450-1515) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border is dated 1519 and features the monogram of (perhaps) the artist responsible -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features cherubs and is dated 1519 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border with the printer's device of Friedrich Peypus (1485-1534) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border illustrates either the printer's carelessness or his playfulness with its upside-down placement of the left panel -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Joannes Oporinus (1507-1568) alludes to the myth of the musician Arion’s rescue from drowning by a dolphin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of a muscian on a dolphin playing a lute. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the Roman god Neptune. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border From the Master of Jacob's Ladder, a pupil of Georg Lemberger.