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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1126 (Bavarian, 1463, manuscript with coloured woodcuts)
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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Manuscript with coloured woodcuts, the same woodcuts also appear in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 21543

Artist or creator

Bavaria
Blank

Date

1463

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 1126

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 151r.

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