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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 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31a: Christ delivers the Fathers from Limbo / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31a: Christ delivers the Fathers from Limbo / Variant: Christ leads a group of persons out of the mouth of hell
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt / Type for the Delivery of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Exodus / Exod. 12:51: The Israelites depart from Egypt / Type for Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Abraham is thrown into the fire in Ur and rescued by God / Type for the Liberation of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Abraham delivered by God from the fire in Ur (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Exod. 12:51: The Israelites depart from Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Harrowing of Hell / Christ leading the Fathers out of Limbo - not trampling a devil or the broken doors of Hell

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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: 45v.
unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: q1v.
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