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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
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 / 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 / Miscellaneous other variants
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 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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
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: k4v.
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unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: k4v.
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