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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 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / Variant: Adam and Eve with the body of Abel lying without a shroud on the ground
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death (Comestor)

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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: 43r.
unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: o7v.
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