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  • Martyr burns at the stake (6b)

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    Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
    Description: A balding, bearded man burns at the stake. He faces toward the left of the image and clasps his hands in prayer. This woodcut appears nine times in the third edition (1576) to illustrate the burning of Thomas Rhedonensis (at Rome) (sig. KK5r, p. 645); Richard Wiche priest (sig. NN2v, p. 676); John Stilman (sig. BBb3r, p. 789); Thomas Hytten (sig. RRr4r, p. 971); James Baynham (sig. UUu1v [top], p. 1002); Thomas Benet (at Exeter) (sig. UUu6v, p. 1012); Walter Mille (sig. RRR6r, p. 1239); Robert Farrar bishop (at Carmarthen) (sig. SSSs6v, p. 1472); and Diricke Carver (at Lewes) (sig. GGGG1v, p. 1594). This woodcut first appears in John Day's edition of R. González de Montes, De heylighe Spaensche inquisitie (1569). Luborsky and Ingram 11223/19, 12000/1. JPEG file (3.75 MB).

  • Martyr burns at the stake (6a)

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    Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
    Description: A balding, bearded man burns at the stake. He faces toward the left of the image and clasps his hands in prayer. This woodcut appears nine times in the second edition (1570) to illustrate the burning of Tho. Rhedonensis (at Rome) (sig. Yy6r, p. 791); Richard Wyche priest (sig. DD1v, p. 830); John Stilman (sig. BBb4r, p. 941); Tho. Benet (sig. YYy5v, p. 1184); Kerby (sig. TTT5r, p. 1411); Walter Mill (sig. ZZZ2r, p. 1453); M. Farrar (at Carmarthen) (sig. XXXx1v, p. 1724); Diricke Carver (sig. KKKK4v, p. 1861); and Richard Yeoman (sig. UUUUu4r, p. 2245). This woodcut first appears in John Day's edition of R. González de Montes, De heylighe Spaensche inquisitie (1569). Luborsky and Ingram 11223/19, 12000/1. JPEG file (3.75 MB).

  • Four martyrs burn to death in oil

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    Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries
    Description: "MD" (see "Soldiers drag two Christians by ropes" in this collection). and Four martyrs sit back to back in a vat of hot oil, two of them gazing upward in prayer. A soldier pours a ladle of heated oil over the martyrs, and a second soldier pumps a bellows beneath the vat. A turbaned emperor speaks to a richly dressed man at his left, while a group of soldiers and others observes (one of whom gazes upward). (Cartouche: "Christians put in a vessellofboylyngoyle. 36." ["Christians put in a vessel of boiling oil. 36."]). This woodcut appears on the "Table of the Ten First Persecutions of the Primitive Church" foldout illustration in the second (1570) and fourth (1583) editions. Luborsky and Ingram 11223/1A (detail). JPEG file (1.32 MB).