Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch

Scope and Contents The Denig picture Bible is separated into six sections: a family register, seventeen emblem pictures with accompanying devotional text, an illustration of the martyrdom of John the Baptist with accompanying text, twenty-eight illustrations of scenes from the Passion of Christ, fourteen illustrations of the Martyrdom of the Apostles, and a series of hymns. Denig's illustrations combine Christian religious imagery with elements from his lived experience during the Revolutionary...