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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's Device of Jean Crespin (d. 1572) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer’s device of Mathias Apiarius (ca. 1500-1554) features a swarm of bees as a wordplay on his name (apiary = a home for a colony of bees). At the base of the tree is a Bible -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Johannes Crato (d. 1578) shows Samuel anointing David with oil from a ram's horn, as David kneels in prayer before him -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Henri Estienne (1531-1598) gives the motto in abbreviated form: NOLI ALTUM SAPERE ('do not become proud,' F. Schreiber, The Estiennes, 247), taken from the Vulgate of Rom 11:20 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device of Guillaume Cavellat (d. 1576 or 7) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer's device for Denys Roce (fl. 1490-1517) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Arnold Birckmann (fl. 1530-1542) used various printer's devices, but most made use of a hen standing before a birch tree (=Birke) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Printer’s mark for Aldo Manuzio (1449 or 1450-1515) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device for Thomas Anshelm Badensis (note the monogram) includes the Hebrew and Greek forms of "Jesus." Here it occurs on the last leaf of the 1518 edition of the great sixteenth-century Christian Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin’s, work on Hebrew accentuation and orthography (dedicated to ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Jacob Bährwald (fl. 1539-1570) suggests a wordplay on the two elements of the German surname: Bähr (Bär = bear) and Wald (forest)