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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Attached to the folio printing of Gaguin’s work on the history of France is the printer’s device of Thielman Kerver (d. 1522). As was often the case, this device incorporates mythological elements (the two unicorns), elaborate flora (an oak tree occupies the central space), and a family crest -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The printer's device of Christoph Froschauer (d. 1564) includes a wordplay on his surname (Frosch = Frog) -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Job's three friends stand with scepter, sword, and fine clothing before a naked Job, who sits under a tree in the countryside. A city is visible in the distance -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jeremiah's call and commission. He kneels and looks to God in the clouds, seeing a boiling pot on the one side and the branch of an almond tree on the other -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This printer’s device of Robert Estienne (1503?-1559) 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: The printer's device of Paul Fagius (1504-1549) shows a stork eating frogs, perhaps suggesting a wordplay on the printer's surname (Grk phagein = "to eat") -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Zechariah sits on the ground, and before him is an angel, an armed soldier on horseback (red horse, among the myrtle trees), and in the clouds are visible four soldiers with swords and four horns. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jonah sits in the posture of prayer with a book on the ground before him, a tree/vine shading him, and Ninevah visible in the distance. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jeremiah sees above him in the clouds God, on the left is the branch of an almond tree, and on the right is a boiling pot. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This initial letter A shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with the serpent and the tree of knowledge.
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