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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Printed editions / Lyon: Huss, 1478
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33c: Christ as Good Shepherd / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33c: Christ as Good Shepherd / Variant: Christ carrying the lost sheep, with angels, arranged not two on each side
Typology and Prophecy / Passages from the New Testament treated as Types and Prophecies / Luke / Luke 15:4-6: Parable of the Shepherd returning with the lost sheep / Type for the Ascension (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Ascension of Christ / with Luke 15:4-6: Parable of the Shepherd returning with the lost sheep (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Life of Christ / Ministry / Parables / The lost sheep (Lc. 15:4-6) / Christ carrying the sheep, with rejoicing angels (cf. Lc. 15:7)

Further details

woodcut. Image also used in the first edition printed in Lyon in 1478 (first illustrated book printed in France). Image also used in the editions: 1479, 1482, 1486 (presumably, no surviving copy), 1488.

Artist or creator

Lyon

Date

1478

Location

.., Blank

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Colophon: Cy finist le Mirouer de la redemption de lumain lignage (GW M43034). Lyon (Huss). 1483. Folio: 126v.
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Web resources

USTC
BML catalogue entry (1479 edition)
complete digital copy (Gallica)

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