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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 8 (Swiss, 1427)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38c: When Abimelech besieged Thebes, a woman killed him by throwing down a millstone / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38c: When Abimelech besieged Thebes, a woman killed him by throwing down a millstone / Original composition: Simultaneously the woman on the tower holds the millstone, it hits Abimelech beneath, his armourbearer kills him
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 9:53-54: Abimelech attacks the tower of Sichem, is wounded by a stone thrown down by a woman, and asks his armourbearer to kill him / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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Artist or creator
Swiss by 1563 in Muri Abbey (Aargau)
Date
1427
Location
Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 8
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 39r.
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