James I. Good Collection photo gallery

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• Portrait of Dr. James I. Good
  
  
• Swiss Bible of 1798
  
  
• A Protestant "Mass" from 1523
  A Communion Service for Protestants, probably written by Johann Oecolampadius, who soon after became a major figure in the Reformation of Switzerland.
  
  
• Title page of the "Breeches" Bible, 1599
  This edition became known as the "Breeches" Bible because in Genesis 3:7, Adam and Eve make themselves "breeches" after realizing their nakedness.
  
  
• "Kupfer" Bible of 1733
  "Kupfer" (German for "copper") refers to the numerous copper plate illustrations.
  
  
• Luther's view of the Papacy
  An illustration from Luther's attack on the Papacy, in a 1555 edition of his works.
  
  
• Printer's device used by Christoph Froschauer
  Froschauer was perhaps the most talented printer in 16th-century Switzerland. As his name means "the frog meadow" in German, he always included figures of frogs in his devices.
  
  
• French Bible from Antwerp, 1541
  
  
• Fashion plates from 18th century Switzerland
  From a history of the Reformed Church in Zurich, published in 1750.
  
  
• Erasmus' New Testament, 1516
  The title reads: Novum instrumentum omne.
  
  
• The Heidelberg Catechism, 1563
  The coat of arms of Friedrich III, Elector Palatine, 1515-1576, is on the title page.
  
  
• Title page of the History of the Goths, 1554
  
  
• Satirical cartoon attacking David Friedrich Strauss, Zurich 1839
  David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) was an outstanding figure among German theologians of the 19th century; his great work was "The life of Jesus", in which he advanced the radical idea that Jesus could be interpreted as a mythic figure embodying a high spiritual truth. The government of Zurich offered him an appointment to its University in 1839, but outraged protests from the conservative landowners and clergy were so strong that they led to the fall of Zurich's government. The cartoon is based on a German pun: "Strauss" means "ostrich", so the cartoonist has drawn a set of characters boiling up a pot of ostrich eggs and distributing them to the waiting crowd.