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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / New York, Public Library, Spencer 15 (Middle Rhine, c1420)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17c: Samgar kills six hundred enemies with a ploughshare / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17c: Samgar kills six hundred enemies with a ploughshare / Variant: Samgar, holding a ploughshare above his head, attacks enemies at his left or his right
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / Variant: David, with sword over his head but no shield, attacks enemies on his right or left - or the enemies there already dead
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Judges / Othoniel, Ehud (Aod) and Samgar (Jud. 3) / Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (Jud. 3:31)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / David, despite being tender like a woodworm, once killed eight hundred Egyptians (2 Kings 23:8, in some translations not David but Adino or Hachmonis, one of his heroes)

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Artist or creator

Middle Rhine (attributed)

Date

1420 (circa)

Location

New York, Public Library, Spencer 15

Associated persons

James Marrow (Photographer (analogue))

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 18v.

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