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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 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29c: Samson kills the lion / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29c: Samson kills the lion / Original composition: Samson astride on the lion, grasping with each hand one jaw
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ defeating the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / Samson and the Lion (Jud. 14:5-8) / Samson kills the lion (Jud. 14:5-6)

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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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