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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border From the Master of Jacob's Ladder, a pupil of Georg Lemberger. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the two embrace and other soldiers look on, Joab stabs Amasa with a dagger. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Priests carry the Ark of the Covenant across the Jordan River on dry land, as the Israelite soldiers and others look on. A ship is visible in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle Philip is shown here being martyred by crucifixion -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive -
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: Some Christian tradition holds that the Apostle Simon the Zealot was sawn in two -
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: Here the Apostle Matthew is martyred by decapitation -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: From the Hortulus animae or Lustgarten der Seelen and based on the sketches of Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), this scene depicts the be-heading of Matthias by guillotine. According to Acts 1:15-26, he was chosen by the casting of lots to replace the Apostle Judas, who had committed suicide...