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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / London, British Library, Egerton MS 878 (Ravensburg, 1436-1438, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / Original composition: God pulls Abraham from the fire (symmetrical)
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)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Youth of Abraham / Abraham thrown into a fire in Ur and liberated by God (Comestor) / Abraham pulled out of the fire by God

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Artist or creator

Ravensburg

Date

1436 - 1438

Location

London, British Library, Egerton MS 878

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 65v.

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