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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 fifth angel blows a trumpet, as smoke from the shaft of the bottomless pit rises. There is a fallen star, locusts with crowns, human faces, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion tails. The angel of the bottomless pit appears in the smoke, and men lie dead around the mouth of the pit. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The sixth angel blows a trumpet, and a third of humankind is slaughtered. There is a golden altar before God, and below it are breastplated riders on horses with lions' heads. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mark sits at a desk and writes in a book, as a lion with luminous head lies nearby. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Daniel stands in prayer in the lions' den, flanked by two lions, as an angel flies overhead holding another (bearded) human figure with a jar in hand -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Daniel is in the lions' den, and an angel appears overhead, holding a man up by his hair. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The bronze stand constructed by Hiram, decorated on the sides with lions, oxen, palm trees, and cherubim, and set upon four bronze wheels. Four raised corners support the basin on top. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border shows Samson slaying a lion and has its roots in Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut "Simsons Kampf mit dem Löwen." -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Saint Jerome strikes himself with a stone, while gazing at a cruficix. A lion is at his feet, the cardinal's hat nearby, and a city is visible in the background. Hieronymus (or 'Jerome') Hölzel (the printer; fl. 1500-1525) regarded St. Jerome as his patron saint -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The six steps to Solomon's throne were decorated with lions.