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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Printed editions / Blockbook (first Latin edition), probably Utrecht, between 1466 and 1471
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / 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 / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / Variant: Samson, with the jawbone above his head, attacks enemies at his left or his right
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / 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. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / The Jawbone of an Ass (Jud. 15:9-19) / Samson kills the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (Jud. 15:15-16) / Speculum humanae salvationis

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Utrecht (attributed)

Date

1466 - 1471 One copy is on paper from 1466-1467, one has rubrications dated to 1471

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - Xylogr. 37,

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis (Blockbook, first Latin edition, GW M43002). Utrecht (probably). 1466-1471. Folio: 30v.
unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: k2v.
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