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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 / 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 / Original composition: Samgar stands in the centre, holding a ploughshare above his head, with the enemies at his feet
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 / 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
Old Testament / Judges / Othoniel, Ehud (Aod) and Samgar (Jud. 3) / Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (Jud. 3:31)

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Artist or creator

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: 31r.
unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: k3v.
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