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Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / Daniel - Nabuchodonosor's body cut into 300 parts and fed to 300 birds

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Printed editions / Culemborg: Veldener, 1492 (additions to the blockbook edition)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / Variant: Nabuchodonosor's body on a table, but without his head and two birds in the foreground
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Evil-Merodach cuts the body of Evil-Merodach into 300 parts / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with Evilmerodach cutting the dead body of his father Nabuchodonosor into 300 parts (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)

Further details

These woodcuts have the same frames as the illustrations of the Speculum woodcuts and have been attributed to the same artist as the second half of the Speculum. Whereas this suggests that they were probably made for the Speculum blockbook they were apparently not used before the 1492 edition

Artist or creator

Utrecht (attributed)

Date

1466 - 1492

Location

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Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Colophon: Hier eyndet die warachtige spiegel onser behaldenisse (GW M43050). Culemborg (Veldener). 1492 (Sept 27). Folio: o4v.
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