With a horn of oil the prophet Samuel anoints young David to become Israel’s next king (1 Samuel 16). One of David’s attributes, the harp, rests on the ground beside him. The woodcut serves as a printer’s device for Samuel Selfisch (or, Seelfisch) of Wittenberg or of Gabriel Schnellboltz (cf. W.L. Strauss, The German Single-Leaf Woodcut 1550-1600, III.1310) for whom H. Krafft printed this volume and comes at the end of one section of the volume. The engraving is dated 1562, below which is the engraver’s symbol (right margin); on the opposite margin is a copyright mark of sorts: the number four with cross; and at the base is the author’s monogram with an arrow rising through it
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