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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle James (the Greater) was martyred by being beheaded
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Martyrdom of the Apostle James (the Less) happened by his being thrown from a parapet, according to some tradition, and then being beaten with a fuller's club
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle James Minor or James, the Less, stands with book in hand and his attribute the fuller's club, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by being thrown from a parapet and then beaten with a fuller's club. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the uppe...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Apostle James the Greater stands with staff in hand and wearing his characteristic pilgrim's hat, while in the background is depicted his own martyrdom by beheading. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Here Saint James, with staff in hand, receives a sealed envelope from a messenger. As often is the case in the illustrations of this 1547 Bible, the messenger is shod but the saint is not
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: James the Greater with his attribute the staff