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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / St. Gall, Kantonsbibliothek, VadSlg Ms. 352,1-2 (Swabian or Swiss, c1440)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26a: Descent from the Cross (Variants: Crucifixion and Lamentation of Christ) / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26a: Descent from the Cross (Variants: Crucifixion and Lamentation of Christ) / Variant: Lamentation of Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 37:32-35: Joseph's brothers show his cloak to Jacob / Type for the Lamentation of Christ (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Ruth / Ruth 1:5 (and 1:20): Noemi and her daughter-in-law lament over the death of her husband and her sons / Type for the Lamentation of Christ (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Lamentation of Christ (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Lamentation of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical; SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Lamentation of Christ / with Gen. 37:32-35: Joseph's brothers show his cloak to Jacob (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Lamentation of Christ / with Ruth 1:5 (and 1:20): Noemi laments over the death of her husband and her sons (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Life of Christ / Passion / Lamentation / Virgin with body in lap / Not at the foot of the Cross

Further details

This scene is inserted here, pushing all images until p. 52 one position forward. Thus, the manuscripts shows two scenes for the Antitype, the conventional Descent from the Cross and the less common Lamentation

Artist or creator

Swabian or
Swiss

Date

1440 (circa)

Location

St Gall, Kantonsbibliothek, VadSlg Ms. 352,1-2

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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