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A postcard showing Sister Coote, next to the unnamed mother, holding the first baby born with surgical intervention as part of the "Mbuma-zending" medical. The photograph was taken a few months after the birth. The verso includes a description of the image and a request for donations to the Dutch Foundation "Mbuma-zending" which supports the mission work of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe and Zambia).

A postcard showing a thatch-roofed buiilding, outside of which sit group of children. In the shade of the roof's overhang, a man is sitting in a white suit.

A postcard showing in the distance the "Mission Baudouinville." A road lined by thatch-roofed buildings leads up to the church. The shot shows a number of individuals carrying baskets and bundles walking towards the church between several palm trees.

A postcard showing a class of young men and boys at the Longenschool.

An activity guide designed to accompany the "So That It Pierces & Rings Through The Heart: Martin Luther's September Testament and 500 Years of Vernacular Scripture" exhibition, including a scavenger hunt, matching game, word search, coloring page, and guiding questions.

An activity guide designed to accompany the "This Sacred Art: The Emergence of the Printed Book in Fifteenth-Century Europe" exhibition, including a scavenger hunt, matching game, word search, drawing prompt, and guiding questions.

An activity guide designed to accompany the "The Very Meanest Translation: Reading, Revising, and Replacing the King James Bible in America" exhibition, including a scavenger hunt, matching game, word search, fill-in-the-blank games, and guiding questions.

A guide for incoming and returning students to the services and resources at Pitts Theology Library. This is the inaugural release of the zine, featuring original artwork by Ann McShane and advice gathered from students and library users during the Spring 2023 semester.

Summary: Third edition of Alciatus in France, "with new woodcuts superior to those of the 'Augsburg' editions" (Landwehr). The emblems are attributed to Mercure Jollat. "It is the Paris edition which set the standard for the popular field of emblem literature (Mortimer, French, no. 13, p. 13). Alciatus was not happy with the two earlier Augsburg editions; but the expanded Wechel edition which appeared in Paris in 1534 with entirely new woodcuts by Jollat set a new standard.

Summary: "Editio princeps of perhaps the most influential religious emblem books" (Landwehr). Herman Hugo (1588-1629), born in Brussels, joined the Jesuit order in 1605, became Spinola's father confessor and accompanied the general in all his campaigns. He died of the plague at Reinberg. The engravings in this beautifully illustrated emblem book are attributed to Boetius à Bolswert (Boëce van Bolswert: ca. 1580-1633), who also is noted as the publisher (one illustration is signed "W. Simpson sculp.").

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Summary: First edition of this beautifully illustrated Jesuit emblem book. The work is dedicated to Leopold Archduke of Austria with a full-page dedicatory illustration and 162 numbered etched text emblems.

Summary: First edition, first issue of an educational emblem book based on various aspects of nature and human nature with 100 engraved emblems by Jan Luiken (41 images) and Caspar Luiken (59 images). Each emblem is accompanied by a 10-line Latin verse in letterpress by the German engraver and publisher Johann Christoph Weigel.

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A photo album documenting Charles Minot and Elva R. Griffith's time as missionaries in Chile and travels around South and Central America and to India.

The digital edition of an introductory study of the "Enchiridion geistliker leder unde Psalmen," originally published by Melchior Lotter in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1536, including facsimile reproductions. The original text includes hymns in part with melodies in Low German.